● to ensure access of detainees to health care at any time; ● to bring into effect the Practical Guide on effective documentation of violence, torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, approved by the Ministry of Health of KR, for medical examinations of prisoners at the time of admission to the TDF of the IAB, as well as at their each conveyance back to the TDF after the removal from the TDF for investigations; ● to place informational stands (posters) with information in large print on the rights and rules in each cell in Kyrgyz and Russian languages (if possible, in other languages). The data in the stands must be developed in conjunction with independent experts. Conclusions ■ the norms of the CPC of the Kyrgyz Republic do not fully comply with the constitutional provisions establishing the right to protection, and formally limit their scope by linking it to a certain procedural status of a suspect or accused; ■ in fact, the detainee may not always utilize the help of a lawyer; using this, investigators apply torture and ill-treatment in order to extract confessions; ■ the problem of participation of "duty" lawyers still remains; formal activities at certain extent reassures officials in impunity for the use of illegal methods of investigation and inquiry; ■ a lack of mechanisms to monitor the quality of the work of lawyers within the stateguaranteed legal assistance program, reduces the quality of their services and causes widespread violation of professional standards of ethics of defense lawyers. Legal assistance at the expense of the State is not effective. TO THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC Recommendations ● increase of tariffs of payment to lawyers for provision of legal assistance guaranteed by the State in order to attract experienced lawyers qualified to provide services to their clients; ● the creation of a mechanism for monitoring the quality of legal assistance of EACH lawyer and adoption of appropriate action in relation to "on duty" lawyers, including deprivation of a license to practice law; STATE SERVICE FOR THE EXECUTION OF PUNISHMENTS Recommendations ● to ensure the mandatory primary medical examination, as well as mandatory medical examination at every conveyance; ● obligatory filling of all documentation of institutions, especially the journal on registration of complaints of detainees on health and injuries, by inspection of the newly 10 | Annual Report 2014

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