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Representatives of Ombudsmanâ€™s Office visit Gobustan jail

31 October 2008 13:04 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva â€“ APA. Representatives of Ombudsmanâ€™s Office have today visited Gobustan jail of Justice Ministryâ€™s Penitentiary Service, press service of Ombudsmanâ€™s Office told APA. 634 people are serving imprisonment in Gobustan jail. 235 of them are lifers.

Representatives of Ombudsmanâ€™s Office visited sanitary service, punishment cell, canteen, meeting rooms and cells. They gave recommendations to the jail administration concerning the issues raised by life-term prisoners Zakir Nasirov, Vagif Mikayilov, Shakir Rzakhanov, Arzu Orujov, Kamran Muslumov. The monitoring also found out a number of improvements in connection with the detention conditions.

The cells of life-term prisoners have been supplied with over 150 TV sets at the state expenditure, the prisoners can watch TV four hours a day. Before, lifers had been allowed to talk over the phone 10 minutes six times a year. Now they are allowed to talk over the phone for 15 minutes twice a month. Lifers are allowed to have short-term meetings with their relatives six times a year and long-term meetings twice a year.