CONTENTS Foreword........................................................................................................4 Definitions and Abbreviations Used in the Text…………………………….....5 CHAPTER 1. MANDATE OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM BASED ON THE OPCAT…………………………………..7 1.1. Requirements of the OPCAT..................................................................7 1.2. National legislation..................................................................................8 1.3. Directions of the activity of the NPM....................................................10 CHAPTER 2. ACTIVITY OF NPM AND PREVENTIVE VISITS….12 2.1.Organization of Preventive Visits...........................................................12 2.1.1. Scheduled visits...................................................................................12 2.1.2. Ad-hoc visits........................................................................................13 2.2. Conducting visits...................................................................................13 2.2.1. Institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs....................................15 2.2.2. Institutions of the Ministry of Justice Penitentiary Service................29 2.2.3. Institutions of the Ministry of National Security ................................44 2.2.4. Institutions of the Ministry of Defense................................................45 2.2.5. Institutions of the State Migration Service.........................................46 2.2.6. Institutions of the Ministry of Health..................................................47 2.2.7. Institutions of the Ministry of Education............................................50 2.2.8. Facilities of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population...............................................................................53 2.2.9. Institutions of the local executive powers...........................................56 CHAPTER 3. Legal Analysis…………………………………………….58 CHAPTER 4. Legal Advocacy…………………………………………...63 CHAPTER 5. Public affairs and International Cooperation………….67 CHAPTER 6. Suggestions and Recommendations……………………..72 Appendix 1....................................................................................................76 Appendix 2………………………………………………………………………….79 Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ……………79 3

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