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strict accounting, the rules of
storage and distribution are
violated.
Neither the doctors nor
the employees, due to their
official
duties,
provided
adequate medical assistance
to convicted persons who
were injured during torture,
and neither to the convicted
B.A who went on hunger
strike.
Complaints of convicts on
the failure to provide timely
medical assistance, on the
non-distribution of necessary
medical preparations, on the
confidentiality of information
about the state of health
have been confirmed, that is,
there are violations of Article
117 Correctional Code of the
Republic of Kazakhstan “On
the Health of the Nation”.
There are serious reasons
along with a serious violation
of employees’ duties, the
low
professionalism
of
the head and staff of the
medical sanitary ward of the
institution, and collusion
with the administration of
the institution to conceal the
consequences of torture.
In total, according to
the NPM members, in the
CONSOLIDATED REPORT
course of a general search
in the establishment UJD
158/4, a significant number
of convicts were subjected
to degrading treatment, and
at least 12 of those were
additionally subjected to illtreatment and torture.
The degrading treatment
resulted in:
■
obscene
language
used when addressing the
convicts, both to the general
mass and to individuals,
■
coercion of repeating
the same meaningless actions
(commands “Run!”, “Back to
square one!”),
■
coercion of prolonged
sitting in an uncomfortable
squatting pose with hands
on the back of the head and
head down, which in essence
should be described as
torture,
■
being forced to strip
naked and do squats in the
presence of many people,
■
an offensive attitude
towards the property of
convicts, which was scattered
on the floor of the premises,
was trodden by the feet of
the employees in the shoes;
■
repeated,
that
is,
several convicts, washing the
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