TBILISI, DFWatch--Two former inspectors at a prison in Rustavi, a town just south of Tbilisi, have been detained, suspected of ...
TBILISI, DFWatch--Two former inspectors at a prison in Rustavi, a town just south of Tbilisi, have been detained, suspected of ...
TBILISI, DFWatch--Police in Georgia have detained two prison employees for torturing and raping a prisoner in 2012. The detentions took place ...
TBILISI, DFWatch--Several hundred prisoners have complained to the public defender’s office from September of 2012 until the end of the ...
TBILISI, DFWatch--Former interior minister and close Saakashvili ally Bacho Akhalaia has been moved from a relatively privileged facility to Prison ...
TBILISI, DFWatch--A former high official in the Georgian prison system admits guilt in a case of mistreatment and torture of ...
TBILISI, DFWatch--A former government minister and close Saakashvili ally will be charged with misconduct during the country’s largest prison riot ...
TBILISI, DFWatch--Non-governmental organizations say the cases of torture in the prisons, which caused a wave of demonstrations in September, 2012 ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- The man who published the videos that spurred the prisoner abuse scandal was today released on USD ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- Police in Georgia Thursday morning detained former prison guard Vladimer Bedukadze at Tbilisi airport, as he arrived ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- The Georgian Prosecutor's Office has concluded an investigation of a handful of videos showing torture of prisoners ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- The Georgian Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into one of the prison torture videos that shook ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- Prosecutors in Georgia are preparing to press charges in several cases of prison abuse, based on a ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- A former government official seen by many as the main architect of the torture in Georgia's prisons ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- The unrest in Georgia's prison system has spread to the most infamous facility in the country: Ksani ...
The director of Rustavi prison has been suspended while allegations against him of abuse are under review. But the general ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says there are signs of sabotage at No 16 prison in Rustavi. The ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- Prisoners in a prison south of Tbilisi Wednesday protested, demanding the new director's resignation. Prisoners claim that the ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- Psychologists say juvenile prisoners are serving time under very bad conditions in Georgia. Georgian Centre for Psychosocial and ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- The prisoner whom the government claimed orchestrated the prisoner abuse videos has been released. Tamaz Tamazashvili, the father-in-law ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- The prison minister in Georgia says he will put together a monitoring group to let human rights ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- Groups on Sunday protested against the attack on a well-known Georgian writer who was beaten after participating ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- Protests continue after a Georgian newspaper published the names of employees at a prison scandalized by revelations ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgia's prison ministry informs that a suicide might have taken place at No 18 prison hospital. The body ...
TBILISI, DFWatch -- One of Georgia's most popular newspapers on Wednesday revealed the identity of guards working in a controversial ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Thirteen prisoners from one of Georgia's prisons went on hunger strike for five days until the election ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Interpol has declared Vladimer Bedukadze a wanted person. He is the former prison guard who recently released ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office Wednesday reported that it had arrested the twelfth person so far for involvement in ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – Groups in Georgia demands that the former prison minister, former interior minister, current justice minister and current ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s ombudsman says Dachi Tsaguria and Beka Aladoshvili, who were arrested on Saturday, were verbally and physically ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – Prison employees who committed torture and humiliating abuse in a Tbilisi prison are still going to work ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Galina Nemsitsveridze waited outside the entrance hall of Gldani prison on Friday, like hundreds of other people ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – The first new story of prisoner abuse has surfaced after President Saakashvili began a major shakeup of ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – Student groups gathered outside of Gldani prison Friday, in a more scaled down protest against prisoner abuse ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's new prison minister today visited Gldani prison accompanied by journalists. He said prisoners told him that ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – Anger is not abating in Georgia, after the second minister leaves because of revelations of prisoner abuse. The ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – The sixth video clip showing prisoner abuse was aired Thursday by TV9. It seems to shows mentally ill ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - After releasing the scandalous footage of prisoner abuse, Georgia's powerful interior minister, who is suspected to be ...
The European Union Wednesday issued a statement regarding the ongoing scandal surrounding prisoner abuse in Georgia: “The EU Delegation is shocked ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Thursday appointed the public defender as prison minister. Former prison minister Khatuna Kalmakhelidze resigned ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Members of the ruling National Movement party who have left the party as sign of a protest ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Davit Akobia, former employee at Gldani prison -- also known as Prison No 8 -- was this ...
TBILISI, DFWatch - Wednesday morning Georgia’s prison minister resigned after scandalous footage of prisoners torture was published in the media ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – In a new video clip of prisoner torture in Georgia, an underage prisoner is shown being sodomized ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – For the last 24 hours, the whole of Georgia has been concerned about five videos released by ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president admits that Georgia's prison system is a complete failure and needs to be repaired. Mikheil ...
TBILISI, DFWatch – A series of protest rallies have erupted throughout the capital and large cities in Georgia, after shocking ...