CONSOLIDATED REPORT The fact that this was a torture is indicated by numerous beatings of the convicts with rubber batons in the same place buttocks, previously bared, in order to increase pain, as well as the attempts of the administration, first, to hide the consequences, in particular, by not reflecting the injuries of convicts in the log, not drawing up acts on the presence of beatings and injuries, by exerting moral pressure on convicts, threatening them that they would be sent to other colonies, secondly, by distorting the reality in the case files of convicts, thirdly, by separating injured convicts from the other convicts and unjustly placing them in ward-type room of the disciplinary cell. Thus, Articles 130 and 131 of the Correctional Code which do not correspond to actual offenses, were used as the basis for such punishment. In the acts, the actions of the convicts are described incorrectly and illegally, since the phone was actually stored and used by only one 37 convict. The rest did not even hold it their hands. There are no protocols on violations in case files. From conversations with convicts subjected to the use of special equipment, the investigation team of the Taraz police department tried to settle disputes out of court, although the cases where there are signs of torture and ill-treatment are not subject to such settlement if officials and law enforcement officers are involved in them. As the convicts testified, the investigators used pressure to convince the them, in particular, they were made to rewrite the finished text of the petition, or were forced to sign the written text of the petition in advance with the refusal of any claims against the employees. The responses received from the prosecutor’s office on this incident show that the pre-trial investigation authorities and prosecutors ignored giving a legal assessment to the materials collected by us as the NPM and they are not attached to the materials of the pre-

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