ANNUAL REPORT OF NPM 2019
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Table of contents
Ombudsperson's Foreword .............................................................................................................................3
I.
National Preventive Mechanism against Torture (NPM) ........................................................................5
NPM’s visit methodology ...............................................................................................................................6
NPM's composition during 2019 ....................................................................................................................6
Visits conducted during 2019 .........................................................................................................................7
Reports with recommendations published during 2019 ..............................................................................8
Cooperation of visited institutions with the NPM .......................................................................................8
II. Kosovo Police ..........................................................................................................................................9
Physical ill-treatment...................................................................................................................................9
Safeguards against ill-treatment ................................................................................................................11
Video and audio recording of the interviews as additional safeguards against physical ill-treatment .....12
Physical conditions of the visited police stations ......................................................................................13
III. Correctional and detention centres ........................................................................................................15
Physical ill-treatment.................................................................................................................................15
Inter-prisoner violence ..............................................................................................................................15
Accommodation conditions in correctional and detention centres ...........................................................16
Food 19
Overcrowding ............................................................................................................................................20
Regime ......................................................................................................................................................20
Contact with the outside world..................................................................................................................23
Visiting facilities .......................................................................................................................................24
Secondary legislation on fighting corruption provided for by LEPS ........................................................25
NPM recommendations regarding the LEPS ............................................................................................25
Living space per prisoner according to applicable LEPS .........................................................................26
Complaints for discriminatory treatment ..................................................................................................27
Complaints against the Conditional Release Panel ...................................................................................27
Pardon by the President .............................................................................................................................27
The NPM meeting with KCS General Director ........................................................................................28
Health care in correctional and detention centres .....................................................................................28
Personnel, treatment and infrastructure .....................................................................................................28
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