Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2015
6. RECOMMENDATIONS
Persons deprived of their liberty who are in the prison system:
1. To the Ministry of Justice, to investigate in detail all allegations indicating possible
torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, including allegations of verbal abuse and
use of excessive force;
2. To the Ministry of Justice, to adopt a new Act on Execution of the Prison Sentence and
to remedy the shortcomings in the part of the Criminal Procedure Act that pertains to
execution of remand imprisonment;
3. To the Ministry of Justice, to adapt accommodation conditions in all penal institutions
to comply with legal and international standards;
4. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to provide supplementary health
insurance for all prisoners who are without regular income;
5. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to adapt the space and equipment
in the medical facilities of penal institutions to comply with prescribed minimum
requirements;
6. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to enable prison physicians to issue
prescriptions for medications and referral slips that will be accepted by external medical
institutions;
7. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to implement legislation changes
so that the healthcare of prisoners be entirely covered by the public healthcare system;
8. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to adopt a protocol on treatment
of hunger strikers;
Persons with mental disorders who are in psychiatric institutions:
9. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to implement legislation changes
to ensure that the costs of involuntary detention and involuntary institutionalization in
a psychiatric institution be paid from the state budget;
Persons deprived of their liberty in police stations:
10. To the Ministry of the Interior, to thoroughly investigate all allegations of inhuman and
degrading treatment of persons deprived of their liberty, and also in cases when there
is suspicion of unjustified or excessive use of means of coercion;
11. To the Ministry of the Interior, to adapt the accommodation conditions in rooms for
persons deprived of their liberty to comply with international and legal standards;
Applicants for international protection, irregular migrants and persons who have been granted
international protection:
12. To the Ministry of the Interior, to ensure separate accommodation of vulnerable groups
of applicants for international protection;
13. To the Ministry of the Interior, to reduce the limiting of the freedom of movement of
applicants for international protection by accommodating them at the Foreigners
Reception Centre through implementation of measures that are milder than those that
usually serve to enable the same purpose.
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