implementation, also about conduction of visits to penitentiary institutions. Bringing to the attention of the participants the experience of the Azerbaijani NPM, he also informed the participants of the conference about the recommendations and proposals put forward for improvement of detention conditions and answered to their questions. Besides these, the head of the National Preventive Group participated at the final regional Conference on the topic “Provision of Efficiency of Fight against Ill-Treatment” within the joint program of the EU and COE, held on March 25, 2014, in Chisinau, Moldova Republic. Additional meeting was held on Human dimension in Prevention of Torture with organization of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on April, 2014, in Vienna. The Head of the Department on Prevention of Torture of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the head of the National Preventive Group participating at the event, gave information on the issues following from the demands of the OPCAT and the activity of the Ombudsman as a National Preventive Mechanism. The representative of the Azerbaijani NPM gave information about conduction of visits by the members of NPG members to the places of deprivation of liberty, including temporary detention places, penitentiary institutions, psychiatric hospitals, social objects, Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on “Provision of the Rights and Freedoms of Individuals kept in the Detention Facilities” and measures on its implementation. In the frames of the visit he met with J. Mendez the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Chair of the UN Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture - M. Evans, the Secretary General of the Association for the Prevention of Torture – M. Tomson, held exchange of opinions. The Head of the Department on Prevention of Torture and the head of the Ganja Regional Center of the Ombudsman, participated as NPG members at the First Forum of the South – Eastern European Countries on Prevention of Torture and at the Conference on Elimination of Torture, inhuman and ill – treatment and fighting against impunity that took place in November 2014, in Belgrade, Serbia Republic. In both of the events, the participants were informed about the history of establishment of the NPM of Azerbaijan, the legislative acts regulating this sphere, conduction of monitoring, preparation of reports, measures carried out in this sphere, their questions were answered. During the events such topics as carrying out of preventive measures in prevention of torture and inhuman treatment, international standards, minimum of behaviour rules, conduction of the dialogue with the state, participation of specialists in the places that a person can not leave at his/her will and other issues 79