Monitoring coverage Monitoring coverage included TDFs and reception centres of internal affairs bodies and PDFs of the SSEP. The following places of detention were covered throughout monitoring visits:  47 TDFs of internal affairs bodies;  2 reception centres of internal affairs bodies;  3 PDFs under the SSEP. Observers The project team included representatives of the Ombudsman’s Office and non-governmental organizations of the country. Forty-four persons with background in law, medicine, psychology and human rights had been selected. All observers have passed special training on human rights and conducting monitoring visits to closed institutions. Memorandum of Understanding on human rights and fundamental freedoms In June 2011, the first MoU was signed by the Ombudsman of the Kyrgyz Republic, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the NGO “Kylym Shamy” until the end of 2011. Afterwards, seven nongovernmental organizations acceded to the Memorandum: PF Ventus (Karakol), PF Golos Svobody (Bishkek), PF Luch Solomona (Osh), PF Independent Human Rights Group (Bishkek), PO Soyuz Edineniya (Talas), PHRO Spravedlivost (Jalal-Abad), PF Voice of Freedom (Bishkek). In June 2012, a new MoU was signed, while the number of participants has increased including state authorities and human rights organizations, that is: Ombudsman of the Kyrgyz Republic; Prosecutor General’s Office of the Kyrgyz Republic; Ministry of Interior of the Kyrgyz Republic; Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic; Ministry of Justice of the Kyrgyz Republic; State Service for the Execution of Punishment under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic; OSCE Centre in Bishkek; Freedom House Project on “Strengthening Human Rights in Kyrgyzstan”; Soros Foundation Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek); PF Egl (Bishkek); PO Citizens Against Corruption (Bishkek); PF For the Friendship of Nations (Kyzyl-Kiya); PO Youth Human Rights Group (Bishkek), and the eight human rights organizations mentioned above that continued their active work within the framework of the new MoU. 23