2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE 1. Regarding overcrowding of the Centre – The Centre was overcrowded. 2. Regarding adaptation of premises to the disabled – Premises (including sanitary units installed in the premises) are not adapted to persons with a physical disability, and conditions are not ensured for such persons to access the premises. 2. Regarding parasites in residential premises – Premises are regularly disinfected against fleas, but it is still not possible to eradicate them. 3. Regarding ensuring artificial and natural lighting – Insufficient artificial and natural lighting. 3. Regarding a possibility to cook one’s food and receive nutrition according to religious and cultural convictions – An alternative menu does not ensure nutrition in conformity with foreigners’ cultural convictions, and a menu for children is the same as the one for adults. In a building for arrested persons, foreigners have limited possibilities to cook. 4. Regarding health care – Medical aid means kept in first aid kits were past expiry date or there were no first aid kits at all, and in some cases, kits contained not only medical aid means but also medicinal products. 5. Regarding ensuring cleanness in the premises and performance of disinfection, disinsection and deratization – Premises of temporary detention and asylum seekers are dirty, and in the majority of the premises disinfection, disinsection and deratization are not carried out. 4. Regarding a lack of activities for detainees – A social worker employed in the Centre is not able to provide all the necessary social services to all detainees: the services of the social worker are available one hour a day on average. 5. Regarding supply of a wheelchair – A person was provided with a wheelchair, however, he did not have a possibility to move freely around the territory of the Centre. Foreigners’ Registration Centre of the State Border Guard Service During the reference period, an inspection was conducted in the Foreigners’ Registration Centre of the State Border Guard Service taking into consideration the information which had appeared in the media with regard to possible violations of the rights of persons detained there (regarding such issues as overcrowding of the Centre, residential premises infested with parasites, a possibility of cooking one’s food and receiving nutrition according to religious and cultural convictions, organization of additional activities, and a lack of wheelchairs for persons with a disability of mobility). 6. Regarding a possibility to use a phone – Because of the absence of a procedure for using a phone of the Centre, a possibility to use a phone for detainees is not appropriately ensured. Following conducted inspections, 14 recommendations were provided to responsible institutions. Out of that number, 9 were implemented, while the implementation of the remaining five was started. 34