150 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE tablish the periodicity of such parcels (packages) at own discretion. Specifically, p. 4.4 of the Rules of detention of persons taken into custody and convicted prisoners in remand prisons of the State Department of Ukraine for Enforcement of Punishments (approved by Order No. 192 of this Department, of September 20, 2000, and registered with the Ministry of Justice on October 27, 2000 under No. 751/4972) allow such prisoners to receive parcels and packages and money, without any limitation and by transfer or in cash, two times a month. This situation leads to violations of the social security rights of individuals taken into pre-trial custody; – duration of outdoor exercise for pregnant women, women with children and ill persons, on their and doctor’s consent, by providing for up to two hours of such exercise, as required by the existing sanitary rules. Thus the exercise may last one hour, which is also compliant with the rule of up to two hours. 4. To amend Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine “On Preliminary Detention” by allowing persons taken into pre-trial custody to receive visits by relatives and other persons and to amend Article 12 of the same Law, with regard to the right to visits and their duration, since at present Article 12 stipulates not the right to visits but a possibility of receiving a visit by a relative or other person on permission of the administration of the preliminary detention facility. As a result of such lack of clarity regarding duration of visits such visits are usually allowed for only one hour. 5. To amend Article 145 of the Code of Criminal Enforcement of Ukraine with regard to duration of punishments; under this Article a convicted juvenile may be placed in a disciplinary cell for a term up to ten days, while Article 15 of Law of Ukraine “On Preliminary Detention” stipulates that juvenile prisoners who grossly violate the detention rules may be placed in a punishment cell for up to 5 days. 6. For the purpose of ensuring the respect of the right to social security, to exclude the prohibition on visits from relatives and other persons and on parcels (packages) that is presently stipulated in Article 51 of the Code of Criminal Enforcement of Ukraine. 7. To amend Article 51 of the Code of Criminal Enforcement of Ukraine with regard to ensuring the minimal duration of outdoor exercise for persons sentenced to arrest, as in reality the presently established terms of up to one hour of such exercise for adults and up to two hours of exercise for juveniles allow administrations to considerably shorten the exercise time. 8. The currently effective Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine does not regulate the matter of extension of detention of citizens in Ukraine in instances

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