TBLISI, DFWatch – An independent medical expert says the injuries seen on photos of a prisoner’s dead body were caused by a disease which was not properly treated.
Zurab Delianidze died at Gldani prison hospital in Tbilisi. Media learned about his death from family
TBILISI, DFWatch – People gathered in front of parliament Thursday to protest against mistreatment of prisoners, spurred by the news of another death of a prisoner who bore signs of having been beaten.
Police reported that the prisoner died of a heart attack, but
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Public Defender in Georgia believes the time has come to reduce the number of prisoners in the country.
The ombudsperson said this at a joint session of parliamentary committees to discuss his report about the human rights situation last year.
Giorgi Okroporidze – a convict, who suffered from something that authorities maintain “no longer happens”. He was tortured, writes Mikheil Ghoghadze, lawyer at Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association.
In late December 2011, Giorgi Okropirize’s mother came to us.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The current situation in Georgian prisons remains one of the main problems in the human rights field, according to the public defender’s annual report to parliament.
About 300 pages out of 645 explain the conditions and problems in Georgian prisons.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Public Defender on Thursday presented his annual report on human rights in the country.
Among the most important problems is conditions in the prison and penitentiary system in Georgia, where human rights are often violated, according to
TBILISI, DFWatch – Giorgi Tsagareishvili, chairman of the faction Unity for Justice and the member of the Free Democrats accuses the government of prisoner torture and demands that the Chief Prosecutor’s office investigates the torturing of a 22 year old prisoner. He told reporters at a press conference that the director and a security officer … Read more
Despite the fact that the Ministry of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance declared the reform of the penitentiary health care as one of the priority directions and carried our measures in this area, health care in prisons still remains the Achilles’ heel of Georgia’s penitentiary system. The situation is made difficult by the disproportionate distribution … Read more
Georgia’s ombudsman has published a new report which lays out the situation in the country’s detention centers, saying the situation remains problematic. The report was prepared by a team working under the ombudsmann’s office, tasked with carrying out Georgia’s obligations under a United Nations convention to monitor the situation in all detention facilities in order … Read more
TBILISI, DFWatch – The prison ministry in Georgia says about a prisoner with kidney problems who was beaten before and after his operation, that ‘the patient’s health condition is satisfactory’. In a rare exception, the ministry Wednesday publicly made comments to a case about suspected prisoner abuse. The statement was their first comment about the … Read more