To address the identified problems, discussions are held in the Staff of the Human Rights Defender. A brief overview of the results of each visit is presented to the competent authorities, which are then demanded to provide clarifications in connection with the visits made. The brief overviews not only describe the identified problems, but also, based on professional analysis, propose legal and practical remedies some of which contain recommendations to amend and supplement the legal framework on the sector. Information collected in the course of visits during the year, as well as the analysis performed and the recommendations on addressing the identified problems are subsequently reflected in the annual and ad hoc reports and statements of the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia. Furthermore, the format of ad hoc reports is often chosen for presenting problems identified in the course of the Human Rights Defender’s work in the capacity of the National Preventive Mechanism with respect to specific places of deprivation of liberty. This approach enables a more comprehensive and thorough presentation of the identified problems, presenting clear legislative and practical proposals on reforming the sector. Through the National Preventive Mechanism activities of the Human Rights Defender, various principles and recommendations on the rights of persons deprived of liberty have been developed and streamlined to a rather high degree. It has, thus, become necessary to have a compilation of the legal standards of the Human Rights Defender on all forms of ill-treatment in places of deprivation of liberty. This Paper will help to consolidate the ill-treatment assessment grounds and approach, and overall, meet the requirements of certainty of the National Preventive Mechanism activity of the Human Rights Defender for law-enforcement agencies, as well as professionals and society at large. The prohibition and prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment imply comprehensive, continued, and coordinated legislative and practical measures in line with the international requirements. Well-coordinated and mutually-reinforcing work of all the competent state bodies, carried out through an adequate 9