TBILISI, DFWatch–Six former guards at the notorious Penitentiary No 8 in Tbilisi have been detained for alleged torture of prisoners during the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili.
Legal proceedings have been launched against former Head of Legal Regimen of the same facility,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have detained a former deputy prosecutor and charged him with participating in filming videos of staged torture at a prison in Tbilisi.
The Prosecutor’s Office charges Davit Chkhatarashvili, the former first deputy of ex-Chief
TBILISI, DFWatch–A court in Georgia has sentenced a former government minister to three years and nine months in jail for his role in a prison riot in 2006.
Bacho Akhalaia, former Prison, Defense and Interior Minister, was charged together with Davit Chakua, Revaz
TBILISI, DFWatch–Local and international human rights organizations are to examine the footage of prisoner abuse, one year after it created a firestorm of criticism in Georgia.
A handful of videos were leaked to the media by a former prison guard less than two weeks
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia Friday summoned the former prison and defense ministers to question them about the torture in the prisons during the Saakashvili regime.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, it has found, after a number
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three people were Tuesday detained at a rally outside Tbilisi City Court where the case against ex-minister Bacho Akhalaia went on.
In a few days, the court will announce its verdict in the final case against Akhalaia which deals with torture
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili criticizes the chief prosecutor for having freed a former prison guard from criminal responsibility for torturing prisoners because he blew the whistle on the scandal.
The whistleblower, Vladimer Bedukadze, was released
TBILISI, DFWatch–In Georgia, Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili plans to release a video today at a meeting where also foreign diplomats will be present.
The video is said to contain strong scenes of sexual abuse of prisoners and was discovered in an underground
TBILISI, DFWatch–A court in Tbilisi determined sixteen persons as guilty of torture of prisoners, humiliation and mistreatment, but recognized Vladmier Bedukadze, the person who released the video footage documenting it, as innocent.
He was freed from criminal
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two former inspectors at a prison in Rustavi, a town just south of Tbilisi, have been detained, suspected of mistreatment of prisoners.
Interpressnews quotes a representative of the regional prosecutor’s office who gave the names of the detainees