Waiting rooms for accused persons of Baku City Court for Grave Crimes was the one of the places the NPM visited in 2012. During the visit it was observed that material conditions of the rooms did not meet modern requirements; ventilation and lighting were not adequate. The Commissioner has sent an appeal to the Baku City Court for Grave Crimes to facilitate additional measures for adjusting the conditions of the waiting rooms to modern standards until the Court’s new administrative building is constructed. The response letter indicates that using the available funds, some repair works have been undertaken in the waiting rooms: the corridor’s walls, and ceilings, as well as its wooden floor have been painted, and the ventilation’s capacity has been increased. Because of the impossibility of having natural light and fresh air in this place as the windows cannot be opened (since it is a semi-basement), additional lighting devices have been installed. Also, it is planned to use the 2013 budget for the court’s maintenance costs to further undertake repair works and renew the ventilation system with the one meeting modern standards. The NPG plans to visit all court waiting rooms and cars transporting persons deprived of their liberty in the upcoming years. 2.4. The MNS’s Temporary Detention Place and Investigation Isolator Under the jurisdiction of the MNS, there is 1 place where detainees are not permitted to leave at will – the MNS Temporary Detention Place and Investigation Isolator. The NPG conducted 2 visits to the mentioned place in 2012. The necessary conditions foreseen with the legislation were provided with regard to the undertaken visits. During the visits, the establishment’s material conditions, treatment of detainees therein, as well as nutrition and medical care were evaluated as satisfactory, thus no shortcomings were discovered. In 2012, the MNS, along with the measures undertaken in the direction of safeguarding human rights and freedoms of persons participating in criminal prosecution process and preventing the cases of violation of rights, carried out wide public awareness work. Thus, the National Action Program for Increasing Effectiveness of Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in the Republic of Azerbaijan has been announced in the Ministry by issuing an internal order, and in order to ensure the implementation of the provisions relating to the Ministry’s activity, the respective units have been assigned certain tasks. In this regard, the Convention and the OPCAT are studied and other awareness raising works are carried out in the bodies and organizations included in the MNS system, as well as in the MNS Academy named after Haydar Aliyev. 28