CONSOLIDATED REPORT According to Article 12 of the UN Convention against Torture, “Each State Party shall ensure that its competent authorities conduct a prompt and impartial investigation when there are reasonable grounds to believe that torture has been applied on any territory under its jurisdiction”. According to Article 13 of the UN Convention against Torture, “Each State Party shall ensure to any person who claims to have been tortured on any territory under the jurisdiction of that State the right to complain to the competent authorities of that State and for prompt and impartial consideration of such a complaint. Measures are being taken to ensure the protection of the plaintiff and witnesses from any form of ill-treatment or intimidation in connection with his or her complaint or any witness testimony”. According to Part 1 of Article 21 of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture, “No state body or official can appoint, apply, authorize or 17 allow any sanction against any person or organization for reporting any information to the national preventive mechanism, whether true or false and no such person or organization can in any way be infringed upon”. The reports of the NPM members on institutions of the penitentiary system considered by us show that Article 12 and 13 of the United Nations Convention against Torture are not observed by the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Part 1 of Article 21 of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture, which is described in more detail in this report. Situation of convicts in correctional institutions of the Committee of the Penitentiary System under MIA RoK. During the period from January to December 2018, 21 special visits were made to the following correctional institutions: 1. “Establishment ZK-169/5” of the Department of the penitentiary system