2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE viding possibilities to exercise the right to privacy (ensuring nutrition and installation of premises taking into account religious and cultural convictions, provision of possibilities for members of the same family to be accommodated together), ensuring appropriate provision of information (including the provision of information in the language understood by persons). stations, placement of detained persons into premises of temporary detention was not registered in an appropriate register. In the Foreigners’ Registration Centre, the registration of documents related to cases of violence was inappropriate because they were split into two registers. It was also established that, in the Foreigners’ Registration Centre, regulation in cases of use of a firearm and special measures was insufficient – official notifications were drawn up inappropriately and medical doctors did not perform check-ups following the use of these measures, which could have resulted in a violation of the principle of proportionality. When providing recommendations to places of detention of foreigners, the majority of remarks were related to the adaptation of residential premises and premises of temporary detention as well as entrances to institutions for the disabled. Many frontier stations were also given a recommendation to ensure appropriate registration of the fact, date and time of placement of detained persons into premises of temporary detention. Frontier stations were also provided recommendations with regard to ensuring the validity of medicinal products and medical aid means kept in medical kits, warnings regarding the use of video surveillance cameras in accordance with the requirements of protection of personal data, and conformity of cells to the requirements of legal acts. As for the Foreigners’ Registration Centre and the Refugees Reception Centre, it should be noted that they were given recommendations regarding sufficiency of the necessary items, cleanness, neatness, lighting, heating, ensuring the compliance with safety and security requirements, pro- In 2015, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed the human rights situation in seven places of detention of foreigners: in Vilnius Airport and Kaunas Airport Frontier Stations of Vilnius Frontier District, Tribonys Frontier Station of Varėna Frontier District, Stasylos border crossing point and Šalčininkai border crossing point of Tribonys Frontier Station of Varėna Frontier District and Kapčiamiestis Frontier Station of Lazdijai Frontier District of the State Border Guard Service (12 May 2015 Report No 2015/133), and a visit was also made to the Foreigners’ Registration Centre of the State Border Guard Service (15 October 2015 Letter No 2015/1118/3D-2840). The following are the main problems and human rights violations identified: Frontier Stations of the State Border Guard Service 1. Regarding registration of persons who are brought in – Registers of persons do not always contain information on whether a person who had been brought in was placed in premises of temporary detention and how long he/she was there, also the date and/or time of delivery or release of a person. 33

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