Water is blocked in the drains of shower rooms in establishments nos. 2, and 5. Some of the showers do not have valves in the shower rooms in establishment no. 8. In 2015, the Public Defender recommended to the Minister of Corrections to take all the measures to eradicate the water supply problem in establishment no. 3. The recommendation, however, has not been fulfilled yet. Water is still supplied to prisoners according to the schedule in the said establishment. 3.5.5. PRIVACY IN TOILET AREAS Under Article 3.5 of the Procedure on Surveillance and Control through Visual and/or Electronic means, as well as the Storage, Deleting and Destroying of the Recordings approved by the Order of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia of 19 May 2015, ‘Electronic surveillance and control of remand/convict persons cannot be extended to showers, toilets, rooms for long visits, except for the procedure and cases prescribed by Georgian legislation.’ With regard to the aforementioned reservation, as early as on 19 December 2014, the Public Defender of Georgia proposed to the Minister of Corrections to add toilets in prison cells to the list of places that cannot be under surveillance. This proposal has not been fulfilled. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) regularly reiterates in its reports, based on visits to various countries, that it is essential ‘that the privacy of detained persons be preserved when they are using a toilet and washing themselves’.122 According to the CPT standards, ready access to proper toilet facilities and the maintenance of good standards of hygiene are essential components of a human.123 The sanitary installations shall be adequate to enable every prisoner to comply with the needs of nature when necessary and in a clean and decent manner.124 As a rule, an remand/convicted person shall be provided with a shower twice a week and with a barber’s service at least once a month. The administration may not require an remand/convicted person to have his/her hair shaved off unless so requested by the doctor or caused by hygienic necessity.125 The monitoring has revealed that the water closet is not isolated in solitary confinement and safe rooms126 of establishment no. 3, safe rooms of no. 6, and de-escalation rooms of establishment no. 8. There are visual surveillance systems (video cameras) installed in cells so that toilet areas are within the camera’s scope. Privacy is, therefore, not respected in these establishments. Similar situation is seen in quarantine and solitary confinement cells in the accommodation building of establishment no. 15. 122 See http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/hun/2010-16-inf-eng.pdf p. 19, para. 31, also: http://www.cpt.coe. int/documents/ita/2013-32-inf-eng.pdf p. 30, para. 60 [Last visited on 20.01.2017]. 123 P. 25, para. 49. 124 The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), Rule 15. 125 Article 21.2 of the Imprisonment Code. 126 Presently de-escalation rooms. 72 HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN CLOSED INSTITUTIONS