imprisonment. However, the interior premises of this institution had no such separation, but the prisoners / detainees were found in a divided regime, in separate rooms under the relevant categories. The Institution of Tropojë IECD made the transfer of detainees to the premises of the new building upon the Order of the General Director of Prisons, dated 06.05.2015. Currently at this institution, there are 29 persons deprived of liberty, of whom 17 were prisoners and 12 detainees. Even in this monitoring, the scope of the visit of the monitoring group also involved the verification of meeting the standards in the present building of Tropojë IECD. The group of experts noted that the Cooperation Agreement between the General Directorate of Prisons and the General Directorate of State Police, regarding the pre-trial detention room of this institution set under the administration of Tropojë Police Commissariat, had become effective again through letter Prot. No. 2157/1, dated 17.03.2015. The Director of Tropojë IECD informed us that it had been requested the abrogation of this agreement, since the capacities of IECD are small and maintaining a pre-trial detention room on behalf of Tropojë Police Commissariat caused overcrowding problems. As per above, in the end of the monitoring report, the following was recommended: 1. Taking immediate measures for solving the situation of overcrowding at Tropojë IECD, through the transfer of prisoners, whose place of residence or that of their family members is outside Tropoja Municipality. 2. Abrogation of the agreement for the use of security rooms by Bajram Curri Police Commissariat in the premises of Tropoja IECD. 3. Taking measures for support with material and financial means to enable the realization of activities of education, social, artistic, cultural and religious nature. Establishing opportunities for the development of educational and vocational formation courses at IECD. 4. Taking measures for the implementation of the three- party agreement on medications even in those IECDs, which are located in areas with no pharmaceutical warehouses. 5. Taking urgent measures for the provision of the IECD pharmacy with medications, for both acute and chronic diseases. 6. Taking measures for the provision of prisoners with health cards and implementation of medication reimbursement scheme. Peqin Institution for the Execution of Criminal Decisions (IECD) – Dated 08.07.2015 On 08.07.2015 the People’s Advocate was informed about the refusal of food and initiation of hunger strike by a group of inmates at the IECD of Peqin as a means of protest against a number of unresolved problems related to their rights and treatment at this institution. Following this situation, in the capacity of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment, on 09. 07. 2015 the People’s Advocate Institution sent a working group consisted of Alfred Koçobashi, Irisa Laçi (legal experts/lawyers) and Alma Alibali (psychiatrist) with a view of on-site identification of the claims of inmates. 35