PP ANNUAL REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ACTIVITIES OF THE NPM N PM to accommodation which respects human dignity and health standards), which seriously aggravates the serving of prison sentences. Because of an insufficient number of healthcare workers, at weekends medicaments prescribed by the doctor are given by judicial policemen. There is also a problem of the lack of confidentiality of data. Persons deprived of their liberty are requested to fill in the form for a medical check-up and specify the reasons for seeking it. Their filled-in forms are given to a judicial police officer. The Head of the Prison was asked to change the way inmates apply for a medical check-up. This can be done with the help of suitable boxes or cases into which inmates could drop their check-up requests and where the key of the box would be kept by healthcare workers who would collect such requests. In any case, an appropriate solution to the problem had to be found in agreement with the doctor. After the visit, a report was made and submitted to the Central Office along with the recommendations. Despite a rush note, until June 2013, the Central Office had not informed the Ombudswoman of the taken activities regarding his recommendations. Visit to the Prison Hospital Following information sent to the Ombudsman by the Centre for Peace Studies, as well as numerous articles in the media, the members of the NPM visited V.S.Ö, a Turkish national in the prison hospital on whom extradition custody had been imposed. During the interview with the detainee and the collected documentation, the NPM members learned that V.S.Ö. had been arrested in Turkey because of her participation in protests against the government’s repression and freedom of speech, and during her imprisonment she had been tortured for several years, which seriously impaired her mental and physical health. Since her possible extradition to the country where she might be tortured again, would constitute a violation of international conventions, the Ombudsman submitted his opinion to the Minister of Justice asking him to make it possible for the detainee to return to the Federal Republic of Germany, where she would enjoy the status of a refugee. After the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia had refused extradition, she was granted an unobstructed return to the Federal Republic of Germany. b) Visits to establishments under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior The NPM visited the police detention and custody units in the building of Osijek and Baranja police administration and PS Osijek I and II, as well as the police detention unit within the Detention and Escort Unit of the Zagreb PA. The aim of the visit was to examine the treatment of the arrested persons and inmates and 17