This Annual Report (hereinafter, the “Report”) has been
prepared based on the work of the National Centre of the
Kyrgyz Republic on the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter,
the “National Centre”) for 2014, in accordance with the
Guidelines of the Subcommittee against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment for the
implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, according to Article 15 of the Law of
the Kyrgyz Republic "On the National Centre of the Kyrgyz
Republic for the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" and
paragraphs 1-2 of Article 133 of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic
"On Regulations of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic”.
In compiling this document the materials of the report on the results of the joint monitoring
visits of the National Centre and non-commercial organizations that have been carried out in
2014 were used within the project “Respect of human rights in the close institutions of
Kyrgyzstan through national human rights mechanisms”.
The Report contains information on the operation and activities of the National Centre
for 2014, in particular with respect to the internal organization of the National Centre, including
human, financial and logistical resources and methodology of preventive visits of personnel of
the National Centre to places of detention and restrictions of freedom (balanced quantitative
and qualitative information). Also, the Report provides information on cooperation with
national authorities and other subjects, and on the difficulties for the effective implementation
of the mandate of the National Centre under international and national law. In addition, the
Report presents the results of the analysis of reasons of the practice of torture in the Kyrgyz
Republic and the main problems in preventing torture, utilizing examples of violations of the
rights of citizens to freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment.
A separate chapter of the Report has recommendations to state authorities aimed at
changing the situation in the field of prevention of torture, and information on the
implementation of the state bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic of recommendations previously
published in the annual Report for 2013.
Bakyt Rysbekov
Director
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