Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend E.Huseynli / Elmira Suleymanova, the Azerbaijani Ombudsman, stated that whilst the torture has been reduced at the Azerbaijani reformatories, this is still not good enough for a democratic country.
Noting the fact that the prisons and isolation cells do not meet international standards, the Ombudsman stated that all shortcomings will be removed at the reformatories and significant attention will be paid to the maintenance of the prisoners.