SECTION 2. • secure wards at AFU medical institutions; • AFU units manned by conscripts. 111 The number of MoD institutions and personnel held or doing military service thereat, 2012 – 2013 Institution 2012 (as of Jan 1) Number of institutions Number of persons 2013 (as of Jan 1) Number of institutions Number of persons Changes Disciplinary battalion Guardhouses Rooms for temporarily detained personnel Secure wards at medical institutions Military units with conscripts During the reporting period the NPM Department staff and civic monitors jointly visited 8 custodial settings, of which two were visited for the second time – the disciplinary battalion and the guardhouse of PS AFU (in 2012 NPM visited 2 institutions and made no repeat visits). Administrations of the custodial settings mostly granted unhindered access to NPM teams but in some instances (for example, during visits to institutions in the City of Kyiv and Chernihiv Region) the team, for lack of relevant knowledge on the part of administrations, had to spend 30 to 40 minutes on explanation of the provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights” and on NPM authority. However, members of monitoring teams during their visits had the opportunity to conduct confidential interviews with the military held in custodial settings, in accordance with Art. 20 of OPCAT and p. 3 of Art. 19-1 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights”. Follow-up visits to disciplinary battalion and PSAFU guardhouse showed changes, especially in terms of better holding conditions. It is undoubtedly positive that after the 2012 visits the guardhouse in Kyiv began systematic repair and refurbishment of cells, with installation of toilets, ventilation and new windows of larger size. Typical violations of human rights and freedoms identified in 2013 at MoD custodial settings Restriction or insufficient protection of a number of human rights and freedoms of military personnel still, like in 2012, may be assessed as inhuman or degrading treatment. Specifically, provisions of now existing national laws (e.g. the Statutes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Criminal Enforcement Code of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine “On the Policing Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, Provisions of the disciplinary battalion in AFU, etc.) and departmental regulations that define the