CONSOLIDATED REPORT
Minister of Justice of the
Republic
of
Kazakhstan
dated May 6, 2010 No.
157, Minister of Health of
the Republic of Kazakhstan
dated May 18, 2010 No.
350 and Minister of Internal
Affairs of the Republic of
Kazakhstan dated June 14,
2010 No. 272 “On Approval
of the Regulations for
Providing Medical Assistance
to Citizens, subjected to
restriction of liberty, as well
as serving court sentences,
placed in special facilities.”
When citizens detained
in these institutions, there
is a risk of violation of their
rights, such as authority
abuse by police officers,
unsatisfactory
detention
conditions, which may lead
to negative manifestations of
humiliation, cruel treatment,
punishment or torture and
violation of human rights.
During the period under
review, NPM participants
organized 25 visits in total
to remand houses. Based on
the results of these visits it is
possible to conclude that the
Ministry of Internal Affairs is
taking measures to improve
the situation with human
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rights in temporary detention
facilities,
new
buildings
are being constructed to
maintain detainees, detention
conditions, sanitary and
hygienic conditions are being
improved, restoration, old
window blocks are being
replaced, etc. a number of
recommendations are being
implemented to improve
detention conditions of. The
NPM groups note that in
majority of institutions of
this type, recommendations
received as a result of
previous NPM visits are
being implemented, but,
as in previously, these are
basically recommendations
implementation of which
depends on local MIA RK units
and do not require additional
spending. At the same time,
there are recommendations
that require systemic changes
and adoption of regulations
at the state level.
Positive change tendency
in remand houses are noted
by the local police service
of the Taraz Department of
Internal Affairs. In the opinion
of the NPM group members,
work of this institution in
medical care, food system,
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