A/HRC/36/65 such detention may last for several days before people are freed upon payment of substantial fines, often simply for attempting to visit their property on the other side of the wire to harvest their crops — which is the sole source of income for people affected. 63. According to the Government of Georgia, acts “which amount to torture and illtreatment are regular” and there has been information on inadequate conditions in so-called “detention centres” in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Also, according to the Government of Georgia, people are regularly arrested and detained by Russian Federation border guards for so-called “illegal border crossing” along the administrative boundary lines. According to data from the State Security Service of Georgia, between 2008 and December 2016, 1,788 people were detained by Russian Federation border guards for so-called “illegal border crossing” along the Administrative Boundary Line with Abkhazia, and 987 people were detained along the Administrative Boundary Line with South Ossetia; between 1 January 2016 and 12 December 2016, 190 people were detained along the Administrative Boundary Line with Abkhazia, and 132 people were detained along the Administrative Boundary Line with South Ossetia. According to the State Security Service of Georgia, the abovementioned cases relating to the Administrative Boundary Line with South Ossetia represent only 15-20 per cent of the actual number of cases occurring along that Administrative Boundary Line. 64. Citing media sources, the Office of the Public Defender reported that, according to data released by the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, there were about 14,000 cases of “detention” on the Abkhaz Administrative Boundary Line between 2009 and 2016. Accounts collected by the Office of the Public Defender from individuals who had been detained by Russian Federation border guards between July 2014 and November 2016 indicate poor conditions in basements of the Russian Federation military bases, where they would reportedly be held for several hours to a few days. The information concerned cases in the Khurcha region and the villages of Khurcha and Nabakevi, for instance. 65. Cases of long-term deprivation of liberty in Abkhazia and South Ossetia were cited by various sources. The Office of the Public Defender reported that detainees, including children, would not be provided with water and food for several hours, and that dozens were placed in the same room regardless of their sex and age. Children were reportedly deprived of liberty mainly to secure the payment of fines. 27 8. Right to health 66. It is provided in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services” (art. 25). 67. The right to the highest attainable standard of health (referred to here as the “right to health”) includes the requirement for health facilities, goods and services to be available in sufficient quantity, to be accessible to all without discrimination and to be within safe and reasonable physical reach. In addition, they should be of good quality, with skilled medical personnel, and be equipped with unexpired drugs and hospital equipment, safe and potable water, and adequate sanitation.28 68. According to the Office of the Public Defender and other sources, access to medical services is one of the most problematic issues for conflict-affected communities. Patients often have to take a bypass to cross the Administrative Boundary Line to seek medical care 27 28 12 For more information on specific cases, see the “Special report of the Public Defender of Georgia on the rights of women and children in conflict-affected regions, review of 2014-2016”, pp. 18 and 19, available from www.ombudsman.ge/uploads/other/4/4319.pdf; and “The human rights situation of the conflict-affected population in Georgia” (2015), available from www.ombudsman.ge/uploads/other/3/3768.pdf. See Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 14 (2000) on the right to the highest attainable standard of health.