It should also be noted that the suggestions, applications and complaints the
inmates address to the NPG are not subject to censorship; and are submitted
within one day.12 Such applications of detainees who do not have sufficient
financial means are submitted at the expense of the relevant PI.13
1.3.Directions of the activity of the NPM
The Azerbaijani NPM performs its activities in the following four
directions:
- Preventive visits – regular, scheduled or ad-hoc, unannounced visits to
places of detention;
- Legal analysis – the theoretical and practical analysis of the performed
activities, as well as information collected during the course of such activities,
relevant proposals and recommendations received, and effective or draft, and
compilation of conclusions and preparation of corresponding proposals;
- Legal education work – with the purpose of promoting the prevention of
torture, the organization of legal awareness work for the staff of the Office,
members of the NPG, personnel of detention places, as well as persons detained in
those places, students of relevant educational institutions and academies, and
preparation and distribution of related manuals;
- Public relations and international cooperation – the arrangement of
exchange of information with local, regional and international organizations and
foreign NPMs, mutual participation at events and organization of joint events, and
the dissemination of information on the NPM’s activity in the mass media.
Along with the abovementioned, it should be noted that the NPM’s activity
has been interlinked with the Commissioner’s mandate to receive applications.
Thus, information collected during the examination of the applications received
by the Commissioner and the special weight of complaints by each agency and
entity were used as a driving force in the planning of preventive visits.
The results of the Commissioner’s activities in the mentioned spheres,
achievements reached, and proposals and recommendations made are reflected in
the Commissioner’s special reports. The reports of the previous years were
translated into English and published in both the Azerbaijani and English
languages. Up to two hundred proposals and recommendations aimed at
improving the current legislation, as well as institutional issues have been
enumerated in the reports submitted so far.
and freedoms of individuals kept in detention facilities (22.05.2012, № 352-IVQ); The Decision of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs on “The Rules for Safeguarding and Escorting Persons Detained in
Temporary Detention Places of Police Bodies” (14.01.2013, № Q1-001-13)
12
EPC, Article 83.5; IDR, para 28.6
13
IDR, para 28.11
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