Human Rights Monitoring: Observance of the Right to Freedom from Torture in Closed Facilities of the Kyrgyz Republic

This 2012 report was produced following the implementation of two projects called Addressing Human Rights in Closed Facilities in Kyrgyzstan through Nationally Owned Human Rights Mechanisms and Increasing Police Accountability with the Introduction of Civil Society Monitoring Mechanisms, which were supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, as well as the Freedom House Project on Strengthening Human Rights in Kyrgyzstan, and financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The report is meant for public institutions, nongovernmental organizations, human rights defenders and other individuals who are interested in respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and conditions in temporary detention facilities and reception centres under the Ministry of Interior and in pre-trial and remand places of detention under the jurisdiction of the State Service for the Execution of Punishments.