2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE
nutrition according to religious, cultural or
other convictions; patients did not have a
possibility to express their preferences with
regard to the choice of food.
3. Regarding ensuring the right to receive information – There were doubts as to whether
patients were always appropriately informed
about the prescribed treatment, its duration
and efficiency, medication they are taking, the
possibility of alternatives, etc.; the patients’
right to have access to medical documents
and receive extracts thereof in accordance
with the effective legislation was not ensured;
information on sexual and reproductive
health was not provided. If need be, interpretation services would not be ensured to
patients.
The mental institution was given recommendations regarding appropriate provision of information to patients, ensuring possibilities to exercise
the right to privacy, ensuring the minimum living
space per patient, proper registration of cases of
physical restraint of patients and the analysis of
patients’ written complaints, requests, etc.
four police stations as well as premises of temporary detention of one police station (custody
facilities and premises of temporary detention
of Šalčininkai Police Station of the Police Headquarters of Vilnius County; custody facilities and
premises of temporary detention of the Police
Headquarters of Panevėžys County; premises of
temporary detention of Panevėžys Police Station;
custody facilities and premises of temporary
detention of the Police Headquarters of Alytus
County; custody facilities and premises of temporary detention of Elektrėnai Police Station of the
Police Headquarters of Vilnius County).
POLICE CUSTODY FACILITIES
The following are the main problems and human
rights violations identified:
In the course of assessment of the human rights
situation in police custody facilities and premises of temporary detention in police stations
in 2014, inspections were conducted in custody
facilities and premises of temporary detention of
1. Regarding violations of hygiene norms and
installation of premises – Most common finding was that the detention conditions failed
to comply with the hygiene norms, besides,
a number of cells and premises of temporary
4. Regarding the analysis of patients’ written
submissions – It was established that the
institution does not perform the analysis of
issues raised in patients’ written submissions.
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