2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE
detained asylum seekers, and men separately
from women.
1. Regarding safe, secure and appropriate
conditions – In all inspected frontier stations and the Refugees Reception Centre,
residential premises were not suitable to
persons with reduced mobility, entrances to
frontier stations were not adapted to such
persons either. Not all places of detention of
foreigners ensured cleanness and neatness;
in certain places, some of the necessary items
were lacking; violations of lighting, heating, ventilation and other hygiene norms
were identified. Not all frontier stations had
video surveillance cameras installed; in the
Foreigners’ Registration Centre, safety and
security was insufficiently ensured, since only
the asylum seekers’ dormitory had a newly
installed and properly operating electronic
security system. As for ensuring safety and
security, it should also be noted that, in the
Foreigners’ Registration Centre, a violation
of rights was identified due to the failure
to comply with the obligation to accommodate detained foreigners separately from
2. Regarding ensuring the right to private life
and the freedom of religion – It was established that, in the Refugees Reception Centre,
sanitary premises were installed without
taking into account the specific features of
religion professed by accommodated foreigners; the Foreigners’ Registration Centre
did not always ensure nutrition according
to religious or cultural convictions, besides,
due to the infrastructure of the Foreigners’
Registration Centre, it was not always possible to provide possibilities for persons to
practice their religious rites according to the
faith professed. Moreover, in the Foreigners’
Registration Centre, families were not provided with a possibility to be accommodated
separately.
3. Regarding the right to receive information – In the section of unaccompanied
minors of the Refugees Reception Centre,
there were no information stands, while
on other information stands, information
was provided only in Lithuanian. In the Foreigners’ Registration Centre, data received
during the inspection on the information
provided on information boards did not
reflect the reality. In addition, even though
interpretation services were ensured in the
Foreigners’ Registration Centre, sometimes
accommodated persons speak only their
mother tongue, a rare language in the
European Union, making it problematic to
address these persons’ everyday issues.
4. Regarding inappropriate management of
documents – In the majority of frontier
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