74 the defense of the case is reduced to a minimum. This situation was happened to the majority of detainees and they asked NPM members to pay special attention to it. When NPM members visited the establishment RU-170/1 of the Department of the penitentiary system MIA RoK in West Kazakhstan oblast, on November 15, 2018, two women arrested on extradition were detained in the pre-trial detention center, and the staff identified them as “transit convicts” and who had no the right to meet with their relatives and could not receive any parcels, because in the opinion of the staff, such restrictions of rights are established by the norms of Clause 7 Paragraph 65 of the Order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 26, 2017 No.505 “On approval of the Internal Regulations of the pre-trial detention centers of the penitentiary system”. It states that: “Parcels are not accepted and are returned to the visitor in the following cases: to persons CONSOLIDATED REPORT convoyed by transit” – end of the quotation. Meanwhile, the NPM members consider such actions to be unlawful and significantly violating the legal rights of individuals who are subject to extradition arrest as well as their relatives. According to NPM members, the quoted rule refers to the transit of prisoners across Kazakhstan, and not the transit through extradition to another state. Such an interpretation of the regulation seems to be correct. NPM members believe that in this case, the rights of extradited prisoners are simply violated, and this issue requires a legislative solution or clarification of the General Prosecutor Office of RoK. At the same time, the criteria for a “transit convict” should be clearly regulated, for example, from the moment of making the decision on transferring and taking into account the exhaustion of the possibilities to appeal against the decision made. The necessity and importance of making such a decision (or clarification