TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM IN 2019 5 1.1 GENERAL 6 1.2 COOPERATION WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS 8 1.3 VISITS TO PLACES OF DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY 9 1.4 REALISATION OF NPM RECOMMENDATIONS 14 1.4.1 Statistical review of NPM recommendations in 2019 1.5 INTERNATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE NPM 1.5.1 Monitoring procedures for the return of foreigners 15 18 20 1.6 FINANCES 22 1.7 CONCLUSION 23 2. VISITS TO PLACES OF DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY 2.1 VISITS TO RETIREMENT HOMES 28 29 2.1.1 Thematic visits to retirement homes 30 2.1.2 Regular visit to the Pegasus Home in Rogaška Slatina 32 2.1.3 Control visits 32 2.2 VISITS TO PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS 39 2.2.1 Regular visit to the Intensive Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit at Ljubljana University Psychiatric Clinic 2.2.2 Control visit to Ormož Psychiatric Hospital 39 40 2.3 VISITS TO RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT INSTITUTIONS AND YOUTH HOMES 43 2.4 VISITS TO POLICE STATIONS 46 2.5 VISIT TO ALIENS CENTRE 55 2.6 VISIT TO RADEČE JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY 58 2.7 VISITS TO PRISONS 63 3. ATTACHMENTS 69 3.1 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM) – NPM VISITS IN 2019 70 3.2 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM) – OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE NPM IN 2019 78 3.3 OTHER ATTACHMENTS 90 3.3.1 UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 90 3.3.2 Act ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 90 3.3.3 O On NPM in the Human Rights Ombudsman Act 90 3.3.4 On NPM in the Rules of Procedure of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the RS 90