Daily Archives: September 23, 2012

Waiting outside, supporting those inside

By | September 23rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – “I bet daddy can see me here,” a boy of about 12 told her grandmother, both standing on a small hill in front of Prison No 8. It was evening and beginning to get dark. His grandmother was counting cell windows, as she knew the cell number where […]

Ivanishvili’s campaign surges after abuse scandal

By | September 23rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the government’s main competitor in the election in just over a week says that he has plans to solve the conflicts of Georgia’s breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili says first, rail and road […]

Prisoners go on hunger strike over abuse

By | September 23rd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: , , |

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Public Defender’s Office informs that several prisoners at facility No 15 in Mtskheta near Tbilisi have gone on hunger strike to show solidarity with victims of torture. According to the ombudsman’s rapporteurs, prisoners went on hunger […]

Prison guards who tortured have not been removed

By | September 23rd, 2012|Categories: News, Prisoner abuse|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Prison employees who committed torture and humiliating abuse in a Tbilisi prison are still going to work as normal, inmates say. Prisoners at Gldani prison told this to journalists who were let in. They named the names of specific persons who have […]