During the monitoring visits, the conditions of sleeping places of persons held in these institutions, shower rooms, canteens, medical departments, the provision and storage of food products and medicines, libraries, cultural leisure facilities, telephone communication, search rooms, walking yards, rooms for investigators and meetings with lawyers, as well as the condition of video surveillance systems installed within the institutions were examined.

The implementation of recommendations made during previous monitoring visits was also reviewed. It was established that the recommendations had been implemented. In particular, artificial ventilation systems were upgraded in the Temporary Detention Facilities of Jarkurgan district and Termez city, benches were installed in walking yards, and sanitary and hygienic conditions were improved.

At the same time, it was found that the Rehabilitation Center for Persons without a Fixed Place of Residence did not have a list of medicines, and that certain essential medicines were lacking.

It was also established that no security service had been organized at the sobering-up station in Jarkurgan district, despite the requirements of Resolution No. 644 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

No significant shortcomings were identified at the Special Reception Center, the Surkhandarya Branch of the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center for Narcology, or the sobering-up station in Termez city.

Press Service of the Commissioner of the Oliy Majlis for Human Rights (Ombudsman)