CONSOLIDATED REPORT Amendments to the Law on the military detention centers took place in 2017. It has been 1.5 years, but some NPM reports still contain references to legislation that is no longer in force. Only the NPM group in Aktobe noted, “in the Rules for Serving Administrative Arrest, the form, methods and time of restriction of visits are not defined, as are the methods of telephone communication, the order of their provision and restrictions”. In the absence of such an assessment in the reports, it cannot be excluded that this right is either not exercised at all by the persons detained in the military detention centers, or is significantly restricted, or “anarchy rules”, since there is lack of the procedure for visits established by a legal act (since there is no regulation: what should be provided and undertaken). Three NPM teams conducted visits in Aktobe on February 2 (regular visit), in Astana on July 14 (regular visit) and in Shymkent on September 7, 2018 (intermediate visit) to the 119 military detention rooms of the military police of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan. NPM groups on average spend from two to three hours for a visit. At the time of the visit to the military detention centers in Aktobe, Astana, military personnel were not detained, in Shymkent there was 1 administratively arrested man (serving under contract). For 6 months of 2018, 58 persons were detained in the military detention center of the capital, an average of about 10 people per month (the number of prisoners is unknown from the Aktobe report). For 8 months of 2018 14 military staff were detained in the military detention center in Shymkent. The recommendations of the NPM groups are partly repeating in comparison with 2017. In order to avoid duplication, we emphasize the importance of ensuring such conditions, and they should be inversely proportional to the following remarks. As per the report of the NPM team in Aktobe there is no: