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 32

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