The helpline of the Authorized Person of the Oliy Majlis for Human Rights (Ombudsman) received 28 appeals from persons serving sentences in colony No 43, 25 appeals from colony No 50 in the Tashkent region and 8 from persons serving sentences in colony No 38 of the Samarkand region. These appeals indicate that, despite the fact that the convicts served part of the sentence in the form of deprivation of liberty, an act of humanism was not applied to them.