32 strict accounting, the rules of storage and distribution are violated. Neither the doctors nor the employees, due to their official duties, provided adequate medical assistance to convicted persons who were injured during torture, and neither to the convicted B.A who went on hunger strike. Complaints of convicts on the failure to provide timely medical assistance, on the non-distribution of necessary medical preparations, on the confidentiality of information about the state of health have been confirmed, that is, there are violations of Article 117 Correctional Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the Health of the Nation”. There are serious reasons along with a serious violation of employees’ duties, the low professionalism of the head and staff of the medical sanitary ward of the institution, and collusion with the administration of the institution to conceal the consequences of torture. In total, according to the NPM members, in the CONSOLIDATED REPORT course of a general search in the establishment UJD 158/4, a significant number of convicts were subjected to degrading treatment, and at least 12 of those were additionally subjected to illtreatment and torture. The degrading treatment resulted in: ■ obscene language used when addressing the convicts, both to the general mass and to individuals, ■ coercion of repeating the same meaningless actions (commands “Run!”, “Back to square one!”), ■ coercion of prolonged sitting in an uncomfortable squatting pose with hands on the back of the head and head down, which in essence should be described as torture, ■ being forced to strip naked and do squats in the presence of many people, ■ an offensive attitude towards the property of convicts, which was scattered on the floor of the premises, was trodden by the feet of the employees in the shoes; ■ repeated, that is, several convicts, washing the

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