Office
of Ombudsman
Press-release N1548-2499/236-11,
21.10.2011
To execute the functions of
NPM against Torture, the Commissioner Elmira Suleymanova and the members of NPM regularly conduct long-term and
short-term visitings and planned monitorings to the Temporary Detention
Places,
as well as penitentiary establishments, appropriate social places and
psychiatry hospitals.
Recently, according to the
Commissioner’s
instruction, the members of the NPM group conducted visit to the Baku
Investigatory Isolator of the Ministry of Justice’s Penitentiary
Service. Members
interviewed fifteen detainees and explained them their rights.
During the conversation
detainees
did not complain of treatment and detention condition. However some of them
complained of investigations made about them.
The members of the Ombudsman’s
NPM group conducted visit to No. 7 settlement typed prisons of
Lokhbatan and
No. 12 settlement typed prisons of Nardaran, police station No. 8 of
Sabail
City Police Office, police stations 10 and 38 of Garadagh District
Police
Office (DPO) and got familiar with documents.
Necessary recommendations were
given to the administration of the facilities for improving detention
conditions.
Press Service