Observing prisoners' rights to be monitored by civil society
Observing the detainees' rights will be supervised by the civil society. The Parliament adopted the Law on the civil control over the observance of human rights in custodian institution, on October 10, Info-Prim Neo reports.
Monitoring the detention conditions of prisoners and their being treated will be done by representatives of the civil society, organized in permanent committees working in jails.
Each monitoring committee will have seven members, approved of by the local council. The members are to be put up by human rights NGOs active for at least 5 years. People holding public positions, judges, prosecutors, military, intelligence and police officers, barristers, notaries and mediators may not be members of those committees.
The monitoring committees will be entitled to assess the detention conditions and the treatment of prisoners, to ask authorities for information, to discuss with the prisoners, to receive complaints from them, from their relatives, to say their view on possibly pardoning inmates, to change their punishment.
The monitoring commission are to compile reports to be presented to Human Rights Center and prosecutors.
The prison administration will have to consider the report and to remove the found breeches within 30 days.