MOSCOW, November 21 (RAPSI) – Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova had supported a Justice Ministry’s order aimed to improve the internal regulations in pre-trial detention centers, the Ombudsman’s press service told RAPSI on Tuesday.

The order in question was published on a federal website of draft laws and regulations.

According to Moskalkova’s press-service, although the Rights Commissioner supported the document, she noted that it failed to scale up the use of pretrial restrictions presenting an alternative to custody.

An analysis of incoming complaints, the press service quotes Moskalkova as saying, is evidence that custody has not become an exceptional pretrial restriction yet. Such alternative measures as house arrests or bails are far from being widely used.

The Ombudsman believes that in many cases investigators demand detention of suspects without hard evidence, what is required by a decision of the Supreme Court’s Plenum. Besides, Moskalkova says, there are still observed numerous cases of unjustifiably long detention terms.