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Arrest of any person, as well as the place where he/she is being held, shall be immediately
notified to the competent judge and to his/her family or to the person indicated by him/her;5
a person shall be transferred to a provisional detention facility after twenty-four hours’
detention in a police station; detainees of limited financial resources should have the right to
free legal assistance;6 and evidence obtained through unlawful means is inadmissible in
proceedings.7
38. Legislation provides that conditions of detention and treatment of detainees should be
humane, for instance: pre-trial detainees should be separated from convicted prisoners;8
detainees in pre-trial detention should be held in remand or pre-trial detention centres;9 all
persons deprived of their liberty must work according to their ability and capacity;10 closed
regime sentences must be served in individual cells measuring at least six square meters;11
women must serve their sentences in separate establishments to men and persons aged over sixty
have to be accommodated in their own penal institution appropriate to their penal situation;12
women prisoners must be supervised by women guards;13 penal institutions designed for women
should have a nursery, where the inmates will be able to nurse their children;14 prisoners have the
right to receive adequate food and clothing;15 and prisoners have the right to medical,
pharmaceutical and dental treatment.16
5
Ibid., article 5 (LXII).
6
Ibid., article 5 (LXXIV).
7
Ibid., article 5 (LVI).
8
Article 84 of the Law on Execution of Sentences.
9
Ibid., article 102.
10
Ibid, article 31.
11
Ibid., article 88.
12
Article 37 of the Penal Code and article 82 of the Law on Execution of Sentences.
13
Article 77 of the Law on Execution of Sentences.
14
Ibid., article 83.
15
Ibid., article 41.
16
Ibid., article 41.