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are denied in ARV therapy.
This decision, in addition to
violating the right to life and
health of the sickest convicts,
according to doctors, leads to
resistance and in conjunction
with tuberculosis causes
death.
The system for the
purchase of goods and
materials for catering does not
allow timely supply of food as
it is carried out at the central
level by CCES. Food supply is
composed and organized by
the institution itself.
Article 98 of the PEC of the
RK regulates the procedure
for screening and searches
and mentions that “personal
searches of convicts are
carried out by persons of
the same sex as convicts”.
Nothing more, concerning,
for example, the prohibition
on the excessive use of force,
and the rude and inhumane
treatment of the searched, is
contained in this rule. In so
doing, it essentially provides
unlimited opportunities for
officials to search prisoners
and does not comply with
the recommendations of the
Nelson Mandela Rules and
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the UN Code of Conduct for
Law Enforcement Officials.
The consequence of the
imperfection of this and
other similar norms of the
PECs of the RK are numerous
complaints of beating and
arbitrariness,
brutality
and even cruelty towards
prisoners in the process of
these events, convicted of
excessive use of force by the
National Guard servicemen
involved in routine operations
in the CCES institutions of
the Ministry of Interior of the
Republic of Kazakhstan.
Unfortunately,
the
situation is not improving at
this time. During the search
activities, convicts are forced
to strip naked. For example,
during the special visit by the
Akmola group of the NPM
to the colony of maximum
security of the EC 166/4 of
Atbasar city on the complaint
of the wife of the convict
T., the convict confirmed
the facts of ill-treatment on
the part of the institution's
employees, pointing out
that he was “dropped from
the paddy wagon”, injuring
his knees, and his personal
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