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Recommended to Improve Treatments of Detainees [2004] KRNHRC 29 (1 January 2004)

The Commission received a complaint claiming that failure to provide toilet articles and
pillows to those detained at a police station was in violation of the right to personal
integrity. The Commission decided that the act of not supplying basic living necessities
such as pillows and toilet articles violated the provision relating to the provision of
bedclothes and daily necessities to detainees of the Criminal Administration Act, and the
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. The Commission
made a recommendation to the chief of the National Police Agency that basic daily
necessities, such as bedclothes and daily necessities, be properly provided to detainees at
police stations nationwide.