Country

Lithuania

Detention issue

Nutrition

FRA research findings

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Law on the Execution of Pre trial Detention (Suėmimo vykdymo įstatymas)Detainees must be provided with food free of charge. Food provided to detainees must comply with “physiological dietary norms” and, as far as possible, their religious beliefs, and for detainees who have been prescribed a diet for medical reasons, the diet requirements.

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2018The NPM would like to see the implementation of measures to ensure change in the legal regulation by allowing detainees serving sentences in cell-type premises to store (non-) perishable foodstuffs in refrigerators. Report details