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Ombudsman asks for thorough investigation of death in detention

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Ombudsman asks for thorough investigation of death in detention

By DFWatch staff| 2016-04-22T13:53:23+04:00 April 22nd, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: death in detention, detainees' rights, Ucha Nanuashvili|

Ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Public Defender has asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate a death in preliminary detention. The ombudsman’s statement reads that March 15, a person who was detained a day before died in a detention facility […]

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Detainees’s rights frequently violated, report finds

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Detainees’s rights frequently violated, report finds

By DFWatch staff| 2016-02-11T02:07:56+04:00 February 11th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: Criminal Procedure Code 2010, detainees' rights|

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A new report suggests that a number of rights are violated when people are detained. They are not read their rights and have problems getting an interpreter and a lawyer during their first questioning. These are the findings in a new […]