Table № 7. Occupancy rate of facilities
Name of the
facility
PDF of SCNS of
KR in Bishkek
City
Limit of
Quantity
occupancy of cells
PDF No. 21,
Bishkek City
1325
people
PDF No.23,
Karakol City
142
people
19
Walls of cells in all PDFs are relatively satisfactory,
in some of them, plastic windows are installed
and floors are tiled. Most floors in cells are
concrete and wooden.
Natural lighting is virtually nonexistent. Natural
ventilation is inadequate. Heating is autonomous.
Bunk beds are established.
PDF No.24,
Naryn City
40 people
13
The general condition of cells is insufficient,
plastic windows are installed. Natural lighting and
ventilation is not adequate. Heating is centralized.
PDF No.24, Osh
City
511
people
29
The status of individual cells is satisfactory, repair
is done mostly at the own expense of detainees.
In most cells, there is sufficient natural lighting,
but it needs repair. Heating is centralized.
General condition and their equipments
Area of all cells complies with international
standards and is equal to 3.25 square meters.
Each cell has a refrigerator and TV.
Monitoring showed that juveniles in facilities subordinated to the SSEP of the Kyrgyz
Republic do not feel safe because they are afraid of facility staff. Facility staff practices various
violent forms of disciplinary actions. Staff repeatedly utilizes harsh verbal abuse (intimidation),
inhuman treatment (putting in "glass" for collective beating), physical violence (mass beating
and kicking in the cell and in the courtyard of the facility, strangulation). Children are afraid of
physical pain or placement in a punishment cell; also staff uses physical violence against
children, such as slaps on the cheek and on the head, slaps on the legs and back. One child was
beaten, then dragged in a "cesspool" – a room next to the police control room.
3.2.
The right to health care
According to international and national legislation, inhuman treatment can include not
only physical pain, received during the arrest, but failure to provide medical care in detention
facilities.
Accused and convicted persons, if they wish, can receive, at their own expense,
additional therapeutic care provided by health care professionals in the medical unit of a PDF or
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