On August 17, 2022, members of the Commission for the Study of the Circumstances and Events that Occurred in the Republic of Karakalpakstan met with citizens and members of their families, who had served an administrative sentence. During the meeting, the opinions of citizens on the facts of the use of mental and physical torture, discrimination and other violations of human rights in a special reception room designed to receive and detain persons held under administrative arrest and in the process of interrogation were studied.