The Torture and Ill-treatment Department of the Human Rights Defender’s Office has been equipped with special equipment measuring the temperature and humidity, light, space and volume at detention facilities. The equipment designed for special purposes will be utilized to conduct monitoring at penitentiary facilities, places for keeping persons deprived of liberty and other institutions of liberty deprivation.
The above-mentioned equipment will assist the Defender in conducting more efficient activities as the National Preventive Mechanism in the sphere of torture prevention. The equipment was obtained in the assistance of “Penal Reform International” organization.