Follow-up seminar on prison reform

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Published: September 19, 2024
Sascha Kuhring, Deputy Head of the Security Department at penitentiary institution Moabit; Sergey Frenkel, Deputy Head of the Public Prosecutor´s Office Tashkent, Heiko Möllendorf, Senior Prison Service Manager, Dildora Asatellaeva, local representative in Uzbekistan (from left to right).
Sascha Kuhring, Deputy Head of the Security Department at penitentiary institution Moabit; Sergey Frenkel, Deputy Head of the Public Prosecutor´s Office Tashkent, Heiko Möllendorf, Senior Prison Service Manager, Dildora Asatellaeva, local representative in Uzbekistan (from left to right).
Uzbekistan

As a follow-up to the working visit of an Uzbek delegation to Berlin in April 2024, a seminar on prison reform incorporating international standards took place in Tashkent on August 29, 2024.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan opened the seminar with the Head of the International Legal department, Rustam Giyasov, and Mirmukhammad Mirkhamidov, executive Head of the Department for monitoring the legality of the execution of judicial acts. They emphasized the importance of exchanging professional experiences at the international level, the desire to improve the work with convicts and to ensure the protection of human rights. The introductory lecture by the public prosecutor Farrukh Rakhmatullayev focused on the role of the public prosecutor as a supervisory authority in the penal system.

With Sascha Kuhring, Deputy Head of the Security Department at penitentiary institution Moabit, and his colleague Heiko Möllendorf, Senior Prison Service Manager, two extremely experienced practitioners were on hand. In the context of protecting human rights in the penal system, they described the regulations of penal institutions in Germany, addressed the rights and duties of convicts, and reported on further training for prison staff and topics such as security management and hazard prevention.

The exchange of experiences was very beneficial for the participants, most of whom work in the penal system. They were particularly impressed by the opportunities for the resocialization of convicts and by the educational work of the staff in German prisons.