Ministry of Interior of the Kyrgyz Republic Recommendations: 1. To ensure that IAB strictly comply with KR laws and other regulatory acts establishing guarantees for respecting the human rights and liberties of persons detained at KR IAB TDFs, that all cases of violation are thoroughly investigated, and punishment is inevitable regardless of one’s position or merits. 2. To identify new criteria for the assessment of the performance of IABs as part of the reform of law enforcement agencies already under way; to remove the solving of crimes from the list of criteria for IAB’s performance assessment. 3. To organise regular training with experts involved for IAB’s staff in the area of human and civil rights and liberties. 4. To find funds for decent three daily meals for the detainees and to ensure they constantly have access to drinking water. 5. To find funds for the creation of investigation rooms, rooms for communication, rooms for heating food, rooms for storing bedding and personal belongings of the detainees, rooms for medical examination, rooms for TDF staff, and sanitary inspection rooms with disinfectors at temporary detention facilities. 6. To assure that IAB TDF members of staff can work in the environment encouraging effective performance of their duties, taking into account exceptionally hard working conditions; to timely address the issue of payment of relevant benefits. 7. To create adequate conditions for health workers (physician, medical assistant) in TDFs reporting to the KR Ministry of Health. 8. To ensure that the detainees have access to medical service any time of the day. To find funds to regularly replenish respective healthcare products and medicines. 9. To develop and enforce jointly with KR Ministry of Health a Unified Medical Examination Form to record the state of health and bodily injuries detainees have when placed in TDFs and when taken back after being taken out of a TDF for conducting investigations. 10. To equip each TDF with video surveillance to prevent torture and ill-treatment of detainees and to ensure safety of facilities’ personnel. 11. To revamp and improve on an ongoing basis the system of IAB’s legal education, particularly members of investigative services and investigation departments and units which are responsible for ensuring the conditions at TDFs. Special emphasis must be placed on their moral characteristics and professional qualifications. 12. To assure effective functioning of a Psychological Service of the Interior Ministry, including in its regional offices. Administrations of temporary detention facilities of the Kyrgyz Republic Recommendations: 1. When placing a person in a TDF, this person shall be notified in writing about his/her rights, the code of conduct at the TDF, the nature of actions representing disciplinary infractions, disciplinary sanctions, procedures for appealing those sanctions, and procedures for filing complaints about all other issues. 2. To place information stands (posters) on detainees’ rights and detention rules in Kyrgyz and Russian (and other languages, whenever possible) in each cell. 3. To develop a system of measures to deal with the overcrowding of cells, and ensure compliance with the national standard stipulated by law which is 3.25 square meters per person. 4. To thoroughly fill in all TDF documentation, particularly registration books for complaints from detainees about the state of health and bodily injuries, and the medical examination of persons newly detained and those taken back to a TDF after being taken out for conducting investigations. 5. To take regular sanitary & epidemiological measures: implement disinfection, remove insects, and expel rats from TDF premises. 6. To replace closely spaced metal bars on cell windows with grates allowing daylight and fresh air to enter the cells. 10