2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE
viding possibilities to exercise the right to
privacy (ensuring nutrition and installation
of premises taking into account religious
and cultural convictions, provision of possibilities for members of the same family
to be accommodated together), ensuring
appropriate provision of information (including the provision of information in the
language understood by persons).
stations, placement of detained persons
into premises of temporary detention was
not registered in an appropriate register.
In the Foreigners’ Registration Centre, the
registration of documents related to cases
of violence was inappropriate because they
were split into two registers. It was also
established that, in the Foreigners’ Registration Centre, regulation in cases of use of
a firearm and special measures was insufficient – official notifications were drawn
up inappropriately and medical doctors did
not perform check-ups following the use of
these measures, which could have resulted
in a violation of the principle of proportionality. When providing recommendations to
places of detention of foreigners, the majority of remarks were related to the adaptation
of residential premises and premises of
temporary detention as well as entrances to
institutions for the disabled. Many frontier
stations were also given a recommendation
to ensure appropriate registration of the
fact, date and time of placement of detained
persons into premises of temporary detention. Frontier stations were also provided
recommendations with regard to ensuring
the validity of medicinal products and medical aid means kept in medical kits, warnings
regarding the use of video surveillance
cameras in accordance with the requirements of protection of personal data, and
conformity of cells to the requirements of
legal acts. As for the Foreigners’ Registration
Centre and the Refugees Reception Centre,
it should be noted that they were given
recommendations regarding sufficiency of
the necessary items, cleanness, neatness,
lighting, heating, ensuring the compliance
with safety and security requirements, pro-
In 2015, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed
the human rights situation in seven places
of detention of foreigners: in Vilnius Airport
and Kaunas Airport Frontier Stations of Vilnius
Frontier District, Tribonys Frontier Station of
Varėna Frontier District, Stasylos border crossing point and Šalčininkai border crossing point
of Tribonys Frontier Station of Varėna Frontier
District and Kapčiamiestis Frontier Station of
Lazdijai Frontier District of the State Border
Guard Service (12 May 2015 Report No 2015/133), and a visit was also made to the Foreigners’
Registration Centre of the State Border Guard
Service (15 October 2015 Letter No 2015/1118/3D-2840).
The following are the main problems and human
rights violations identified:
Frontier Stations of the
State Border Guard Service
1. Regarding registration of persons who are
brought in – Registers of persons do not
always contain information on whether
a person who had been brought in was
placed in premises of temporary detention
and how long he/she was there, also the
date and/or time of delivery or release of a
person.
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