SECTION 2. Moreover, common areas accommodated more individuals than prescribed by the domestic legislation and international standards (at least 7 sq. m of floor area per person). Other deficiencies identified during the monitoring visit to the TAC were as follows: • certain difficulties in communication between TAC staff and administration and the foreigners, mostly for absence of in-house interpreters from/ to the languages of the Asian and African continents the natives of which constitute the majority of those held at the facility; • despite the availability of a payphone in the dormitory the inmates have practically no chance to buy phone cards, which are usually provided by representatives of international organizations in limited quantities; • procedure of providing inmates with information about their rights (or other knowledge that might help them in adaptation to their custody) should be improved; • insufficient number, in the TAC library, of works of fiction and other publications in the native languages of inmates from South-Eastern Asia and Africa. One should also note the utter absence of special training programs on prevention of torture and ill-treatment for the guards. The regulatory deficiencies that may cause ill-treatment are as follows: • SMSU Provisions on temporary accommodation centers for foreigners and stateless persons illegally staying in Ukraine do not specify the priority of written notification of the newly 109 admitted about their rights and freedoms and provision of other information that might help them in adaptation to their custody; • regulations do not carry any list of items forbidden in TAC; • rules on health control and on visits, especially from lawyers, in the Provisions on temporary accommodation centers for foreigners and stateless persons illegally staying in Ukraine do not meet the international standards and require alterations; • p. 3.3.3 of Provisions on temporary accommodation centers for foreigners and stateless persons illegally staying in Ukraine (approved by Order of MIA of Ukraine of October 16, 2007, No. 390) provides for the so called “localized premises” designed to accommodate persons who “need enhanced surveillance for predisposition to violence or possibility of infliction of harm to others or to themselves, of attack on TAC staff or of escape” for a period from 14 to 30 days. However, application of such disciplinary measure as confinement in “localized rooms” (essentially, in punishment cells) requires more detailed regulation. Implementation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations given to SMSU in 2013 On the basis of monitoring visit results to Volhynia TAC in 2013 the NPM Department sent to the SMSU its relevant recommendations with regard to six issues related to ill-treatment of foreigners and stateless persons during their custody in the facility.

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