Friday, December 5, 2025

Tbilisians protested suspicious prison death

A demonstration against another suspicous prison death met and merged with a demonstration for free media at Rustaveli metro station Thursday. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

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

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Protest against suspicious death during interrogation

Protesters demand an unbiased investigation into a death of a detainee. The official cause of death is that the man fell down the stairs, but none of the police witnessed the fall. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Up to forty people gathered Thursday in front of the police building in Khashuri, a town in central Georgia, protesting the recent death of a man during interrogation.

About half of people there were activists from Tbilisi, while the rest were locals.

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Georgian TV parroting eachother on suspicious death

The three national TV stations First Channel, Rustavi 2 and Imedi used the same footage and had their news presenters read the exact same script, reporting on the death in police custody of Solomon Kimeridze.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Confusion continues over a detainee’s suspicious death at a police station, after a Georgian website released photos of the victim, Solomon Kimeridze, showing bodily injuries which could be the result of torture.

Yesterday evening, all three national

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