neuropsychiatric institutions; specialized institutions for compulsory treatment of patients with
mental illness, alcoholism, drug addiction and substance abuse; governmental and nongovernmental care institutions for the elderly, minorities and persons with disabilities (nursing
homes, orphanages and others); special institutions for children and adolescents in need of
special education
Place of imprisonment – place, reserved for the detention of the person subjected to
administrative detention or arrest, detained on suspicion of committing a crime, detained in
connection with the prosecution of a crime, who is serving a sentence of imprisonment upon
conviction, including cameras of temporary detention, isolators of temporary custody and
detention facilities; a penal colony, penal colonies, juvenile correctional facilities, prisons;
reception centers of internal affair bodies; guardhouse; premises of the border service for
those subjected to administrative detention; reception Centres and temporary accommodation
of displaced persons within the country and asylum seekers;
RC – Reception Centre
Standard Minimum Rules - Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners4
SCNS – State Committee for National Security
SDCS - State Drug Control Service under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic SMD –
Settlement Militia Division
SPT – UN Subcommittee against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment
SSEP – State Service for the Execution of Punishments under the Government of the Kyrgyz
Republic
TDF – Temporary Detention Centre
TOCH - Talas oblast combined hospitals
TPD – Town Police Division
The Law on Detention in Custody – Law of the Kyrgyz Republic On procedure and conditions of
detention of persons detained on suspicion and charges of committing crimes, dated October
31, 2002, № 150
The Law on the National Centre for the Prevention of Torture – Law on the National Centre of
the Kyrgyz Republic on the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, dated July 12, 2012, № 104
The Special Rapporteur on Torture – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
UN - United Nations Organization
4
Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders,
August 30, 1955.
National Centre of the Kyrgyz Republic on the Prevention of Torture
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