Government of the Kyrgyz Republic
Recommendations:
1. To conduct regular monitoring of the respect for human and civil rights and liberties, including at
detention facilities.
2. To ensure that quality, periodic reports are submitted in a timely manner to international human
rights agencies concerning the KR’s fulfilment of its obligations under international human rights
treaties, and to ensure that follow-up steps are taken to enforce their recommendations.
3. To develop a strategy for the prevention of torture and ill-treatment at detention facilities and
improvement of detention conditions, to ensure that its implementation is coordinated and tracked,
and to be directly involved in its implementation.
4. To develop and undertake awareness-raising and educational activities aimed at eliminating the
causes and conditions which contribute to torture and ill-treatment, raising public awareness of
human rights laws, and human rights defence mechanisms.
5. To facilitate public intolerance of torture and ill-treatment, emphasising the importance of combating
these crimes, and the development of international cooperation in the area of combating torture and
ill-treatment.
6. To ensure people’s awareness is broadly raised on their rights and liberties, to arrange regular
trainings with experts for the employees of government agencies in the area of human and civil
rights and liberties.
7. To develop and adopt a Regulation on IAB TDFs and other agencies that will clearly articulate the
function of TDFs associated with ensuring decent, humane, and safe detention in full compliance
with international standards and KR laws.
8. To assure adequate funding for ensuring decent detention conditions as a matter of urgency.
9. To make an inventory and revision of the whole regulatory framework of the Government,
ministries, and agencies to lift “secrecy” labels from all documents related to rights and freedoms of
TDF detainees, conditions of their detention, rules for conduct in TDFs, sanctions for disciplinary
infractions, and the procedure for processing complaints.
10. To initiate introduction of an independent medical examination institution and, thus, to facilitate
the de-monopolisation of state forensic medical examination.
General Prosecutor’s Office of the Kyrgyz Republic
Recommendations:
1. To ensure that the Instruction of the KR General Prosecutor as of 12 April 2011, #40 “On
Strengthening the Prosecutor’s Supervision over the Assurance of a Constitutional Guarantee of
Prohibition Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment” is
strictly complied with.
2. To introduce specialisation for prosecutors in carrying out investigations against complaints about
officials’ practicing torture.
3. To exclude any conflicts of interest when performing the main duties associated with criminal
prosecution (investigation), oversight of lawfulness, and public prosecution in court.
4. To ensure an effective mechanism of receiving and processing complaints from detainees, providing
full adherence to the principle of confidentiality.
5. To carry out thorough investigations of each case of ill-treatment or torture, and differentiate cases
of this category from others.
Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic
Recommendations:
1. To study and summarise court rulings on cases of torture and ill-treatment. To initiate a resolution
by the Plenum of the Supreme Court to ensure that every communication about torture is subject
to comprehensive, full, and impartial judicial scrutiny which is then followed by a lawful and
substantiated judgement to ensure that punishment for torture, in any form and any manifestation,
is unavoidable.