participated as experts in the working group on coercive treatment organised under the leadership of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The aim of the group was to review the organisation and procedures concerning coercive psychiatric treatment and forensic psychiatric expert assessment. To raise awareness among staff working at and individuals held in the places of detention, the Office of the Chancellor of Justice has also organised training events and information days, as well as distributed information materials during the inspection visits in order to help persons whose liberty is restricted to better understand their fundamental rights and freedoms and to effectively implement various complaint mechanisms. Similarly, in order to improve awareness, the Chancellor’s homepage contains a special section on the prevention of illtreatment. The homepage provides explanations on the definition of ill-treatment, the kinds of establishments treated as places of detention, the rights of persons staying in places of detention, and the role of the Chancellor as the mechanism for the prevention of ill-treatment. The relevant section of the homepage is available in Estonian, Russian and English. The training project in the course of which the Chancellor’s adviser R. Sults explained fundamental rights to the conscripts of the Defence Forces also continued in 2014. R. Sults delivered 19 lectures in different battalions and two lectures in the Estonian National Defence College. In addition, the Chancellor’s adviser J. Konsa delivered a lecture on the fundamental rights of detained persons to the staff of the police detention centres of the prefectures of the Police and Border Guard Board. Approximately 50 persons representing all the prefectures attended the lecture. On 27 and 28 May, the Chancellor’s adviser K. Muller attended and made a presentation at the information days organised by the State Agency of Medicines and the Health Board in Tartu and Tallinn. In order to raise the overall awareness of society about the prevention of ill-treatment, the Chancellor and the Chancellor’s advisers have published both paper and internet articles on issues of ill-treatment. In 2014, the journal Sotsiaaltöö published the article by the Chancellor’s advisers K. Ploom and R. Järvamägi Ela ise ja lase teistel ka elada [Live and let live] on the problems of 24-hour special care services.9 The Chancellor of Justice I. Teder also wrote an opinion Vana olgu vaiki, sant seisku paigal [The old should keep silent and the disabled should stay put] on the restriction of the fundamental right to liberty in the Õhtuleht daily.10 In addition, in 2014 the Postimees daily published two articles by the Chancellor’s adviser J. Konsa on the issues of police law: Politseinike enesekaitse nõuab õigusselgust [Self-defence by police officers in need of legal clarity]11 and Eesti politsei – ise teen, ise kontrollin? [The Estonian Ploom, K., Järvamägi, R. Ela ise ja lase teisel ka elada. – journal Sotsiaaltöö, No 2/2014, pp 44–48. Available online in Estonian: http://oiguskantsler.ee/et/kristi-ploomi-ja-ralf-jarvamagi-artikkel-ela-ise-ja-lase-teisel-kaelada. 10 Teder, I. Vana olgu vaiki, sant seisku paigal. – Õhtuleht daily, 30 January 2014. Available online in Estonian: http://www.ohtuleht.ee/562759/vana-olgu-vaiki-sant-seisku-paigal. 11 Konsa, J. Politseinike enesekaitse nõuab õigusselgust. – Postimees daily, 14 April 2014. Available online in Estonian: http://www.postimees.ee/2761366/jaanus-konsa-politseinike-enesekaitse-nouab-oigusselgust. 9 9