CONSOLIDATED REPORT
of the General Prosecutor
Office of RoK) is explained
by the fact that persons
undergoing extradition arrest
may be staying in pre-trial
detention centers for up to
a year, and in some cases for
longer. At the same time, as
a rule, extradition-arrested
people are essentially the
same accused as everyone
else, but they do not have
the opportunity to receive
parcels and cannot have
meetings with relatives. And
only in very rare cases, they
may already be convicted (in
criminal investigation), but in
this case they also have the
right for receiving parcels
and for visits.
As we noted above, convicts
who arrived to serve their
sentences in mixed security
institutions under Article 88
Clause 4 of the Correctional
Code RoK in local areas of
pre-trial detention center are
not entitled to either a shortterm, or even a long-term
meeting, which violates the
Nelson Mandela Rule 43 Part
3, where it is indicated that:
disciplinary or restrictive
measures should not include
a ban on family contact.
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restrictions
on
family
contacts can be established
only for a short time and only
if it is required to enforce
safety and order.
Those under investigation
who are detained in pre-trial
detention center are also
deprived of the right to have
a long meeting with their
families. Some of them may
be in isolation for months.
Conclusion
of
NPM
members: it is necessary to
define legally and clearly the
concept and status of transit
persons detained in pretrial detention centers of the
Republic of Kazakhstan. It is
important to bring legislation
and regulatory legal acts into
conformity and eliminate
contradictions that violate
the rights of convicts to
socialization.
Right for freedom of
conscience
In fact, in all the mixed
security institutions, NPM
members noted that convicts
have the opportunity to
perform religious rites, but
with minor corrections. The
limitation is the regime of the
institution, which prohibits
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