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institutions, that are not
addressed by supervisory
bodies.
For
example,
according to the Rule 73
of the Rule of Mandela,
“Transportation of prisoners
in conditions of insufficient
ventilation or lighting or
in any other physically
unduly harsh conditions is
subject to prohibition”. The
transportation of people
in
metal
unventilated
wagons, providing 0.4 m2
per person, is a violation of
the constitutional right of
prisoners to freedom from
torture and other cruel or
degrading treatment. This
also violates the Art. 7 of
the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights
and the UN Convention
against Torture ratified by
Kazakhstan.
In this regard, NPM group
recommends the MIA to
bring the conditions for
transporting all categories
of detainees in line with
international standards. To
do this, the development
of regulations for the
transportation of prisoners
is needed, the conditions
of
transportation
must
CONSOLIDATED REPORT
be established, including
area, seating equipment,
temperature
standards,
lighting, etc.
The
new
kind
of
complaints, appeared in
2017 should also be noted
here. They relate to food in
TDCs, i.e. one-time meal, the
non-signing contracts with
outside organizations, lack of
food and dishes:
• TDC of Maktaaral
district police department
(Zhetysay, SKO);
• TDC HD DIA of Esil
district of the Department of
Internal Affairs of the NorthKazakhstan region (Yavlenka
village, Esil district);
• TDC of Kazygurst
district DIA of SKO;
• TDC DIA of Aral
district, Kyzylorda region;
• TDC of the Internal
Affairs
Directorate
in
Kyzylorda.
As in the previous reporting
year, the right of persons in
custody to communicate with
the outside world (media,
periodicals, availability of
a library fund, phone calls,
visits) is the unresolved
problem in all MIA RK
institutions. This is a systemic
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