CONSOLIDATED REPORT
revealed that no action had
been taken. Members of the
NPM team drew a special
message to the prosecutor’s
office of Almaty oblast.
In addition, in the report
of the monitoring visit of
“Establishment
EC-166/5”
there were complaints from 5
convicts who voiced that they
were repeatedly subjected
to torture, psychological
violence
and
pressure,
threats to personal security
from the administration of
the institution and wrongful
acts by the voluntary
administration assistant.
In “Establishment ZK169/5” of the Department
of the penitentiary system in
Kyzylorda oblast, the NPM
team received complaints
on personal safety, namely,
assault,
threats,
and
humiliation of human dignity
from 18 convicted with
regard to the “voluntarily
convict organization”, who
also commit unlawful acts
in relation to the conditions
of detention provided for
and take advantage of the
privileges granted to them.
According to Part 2 of
Article 126 of Correctional
45
Code RoK the main tasks
of the voluntary convict
organizations are: 1) to
create a positive moral
and psychological climate
in the institution; 2) to
develop
positive
social
relations among convicts; 3)
to maintain socially useful
initiative of convicts; 4) to
assist convicts in spiritual,
professional and physical
development; 5) to assist in
the organization of work, life
and leisure of convicts.
A large number of
complaints from convicts
concerned the actions of
the convicts from Voluntary
Administration
Assistants,
Service of Leisure and Selfeducation of the Colony,
Hygiene
and
Sanitation
Service on the fact that they
use their privileged position
for personal purposes. After
some convicts go shopping
in the store or receive the
parcels, food, cigarettes and
other things, these items
are extorted. The convicts
who are dissatisfied with
such actions face the risk of
receiving a notification or
violation. As they themselves
admit, they have the right to
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