E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.2 page 57 places of detention. There are reports that the UBOP premises in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, UBOP in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, FSB buildings including in Magas, Ingushetia, in the Khankala military base, and a base in Tsenteroi, Chechnya, under the control of first Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, have been illegally used as places of detention. During the ongoing armed conflict in Chechnya, numerous people from the Chechen Republic have reported allegations of torture and ill-treatment in different unofficial places of detention, including being denied food or drink for days. Some of these places have now been transformed into official places of detention, like the former so-called “filtration camp”, Chernokozovo, which is now a pre-trial detention centre, or ORB-2 in Grozny which has been registered as an IVS. Detainees that are brought before a court within 48 hours are less likely to state at this initial hearing that they have been tortured, fearing reprisals for such statements. During this hearing the individual is often represented by a government-appointed lawyer, often because the family is unaware of where their relative is being detained and is therefore unable to hire one, or because, when a detainee is held on suspicion of “terrorism”-related offences, local lawyers are reluctant to take on the case. It is often only when detainees have been formally charged that families are able to arrange an independent lawyer, and detainees are prepared to make statements that they have been tortured. Normally, detainees can be legally held for up to 10 days without charge in an IVS before being transferred to a SIZO. However, under “terrorism”-related legislation detainees can be held for 30 days without charge, but only 10 of those 30 days in an IVS before being transferred to a SIZO for the remaining 20 days. 261. Recommendation (f) stated: To the extent that more extensive use of release on bail or recognizance will not eliminate the overcrowding problem, there should be a crash programme to build new remand centres with sufficient accommodation for the anticipated population. 262. According to information received from NGOs, all projects to build new remand prisons and to refurbish existing ones refer to the legally established standard of four square metres per person, while the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment has set at least six square metres per person as a guide for remand prisons. The Russian standard of four square metres per person is even more unacceptable, given that detainees, who very often spend more than a year in detention, are confined to their cells most of the time, except for the one and a half hour period they are allowed outside for a prison walk. Even the Russian standard was not always observed by the builders of new SIZOs. In February 2004, the IHF delegation visiting Butyrskaya Prison in Moscow saw a newly refurbished pre-trial detention cell, and while noting sufficient daylight, good ventilation, heating, and new furniture, the delegation found that the cell of approximately 45 to 50 square meters accommodated 22 bunks in two levels; an average of about two square metres per person. Moreover, even though the living area is separated from the toilet and the sink by a partition, the toilet is still not effectively isolated from the living space. 263. Recommendation (g) stated: Existing institutions should be refurbished so that all institutions meet basic standards of humanity and respect for human dignity. 264. According to information received from NGOs, as of today, most remand prisons have not been renovated. Old facilities still used to hold prisoners are overcrowded, dirty, lack proper ventilation and daylight. This situation, in particular, was documented by the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner visiting Russia in July and September 2004. A