Additionally, there are practically no independent organisations that receive complaints as to discrimination and unfair treatment in the criminal justice and penitentiary systems in Estonia. My organization receives such complaints from places of detention; however, we only deal with them as regards improper conditions of detention, but not the violations in the process of administration of criminal justice. Yet the number and content of the complaints shows that unfair treatment and discrimination in the administration of justice are probable. Estonian mass media publish stories of national minority’s representatives who got stricter punishment, as compared to Estonians, for the same crimes. Apart from that, Russian-speaking minorities file a huge number of complaints against bailiffs. All the above mentioned and absence of free access to legal information in the languages of minorities, primarily – in Russian, hampers the discovery and elimination of reasons for national, ethnical, linguistic, and religious discrimination and unfair treatment during the administration of justice. Thanks you for your attention. RECOMMENDATIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTE OF THE LEGAL INFORMATION CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, ESTONIA. I. RECOMMENDATIONS Estonian authorities are obliged to comply with all recommendations delivered by the competent UN, CoE and OSCE international bodies in regard of respect for national, ethnical, linguistic and religious minorities’ rights within the criminal justice and penitentiary systems. Estonian authorities should: 1. Reconcile national legislation with the said recommendations and International Law as a whole. 2. Reconcile the definition of genocide contained in the Estonian legislation with the wording commonly accepted in International law based on the European Court on Human Rights’ (ECHR) decision dated October 20, 2015. Require submission of more grounded evidence of the threat of national, ethnical or religious group elimination during future judicial estimations. 3. Support independent civil society institutions active in the sphere of national, ethnical, linguistic and religious minorities’ rights and involved in:  Due and professional monitoring of criminal justice procedures and detention conditions (including those during pre-trial and trial) for representatives of national minorities with the aim of discovering cases of unfair treatment and discrimination of the said representatives.