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Juvenile Detainees Beaten at Gurjaani Police Station
August 29, 2008
Treachery or Drugs: Soldier’s Widow Explain Special Unit Tortured and Killed Husband
August 29, 2008
Roin (Roman) Shavadze, sergeant of the 23rd battalion, was arrested on August 16 in Batumi by masked men from a special unit on the second day of his arrival from having participated in military operation in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia. Witnesses claim that during the special operation it was claimed that they were arresting a traitor. Later, that evening, however, family members found Shavadze dead body in morgue. According to the official information the sergeant was arrested for the illegal storage and sale of drugs. It is claimed that he was killed when he tried to escape. Nonetheless, regardless of the ledger of guilt or innocence, his relatives claim Shavadze was brutally tortured and then murdered.
Georgian Public Defender Urges Georgian President to Pardon Prisoner Mother of Children left without Care
August 27, 2008
Drug Addiction in Prison but “Tip of Iceberg”
August 6, 2008
Boiled toilet-paper with injected-drugs will always be delivered to prison What is done to support the drug habit at penitentiary establishments? “Drugs were sent to the prison in packages of food. Sometimes they conceal drugs in food or in some other substances. In most occasions I have witnessed that narcotics were delivered to such establishment with the help of toilet-papers. The paper is imbued with the illegal substance and then inmates just boil the paper to extract the substance,” said former prisoner. No more comments are necessary to describe how things work. It is an illusion to think that prisons are drug free. All those close to the subject know that is actually the case in Georgian prisons. The situation is about the same in almost every penitentiary establishment anywhere in the world. However, the problem of drug addiction is fought against with a range of different methods in various countries. In our country drug-addiction is not considered an illness but rather a criminal act and that is how the problem is addressed.
Policemen from Didi Liakhvi Gorge Raped 16-Year-Old Girl
August 5, 2008
Monitoring Commissions Continue as Conditions Worsen in Georgian Prisons
August 4, 2008
On December 21 2007 working term of the public control commissions of the penitentiary departments has expired. They were selected for a period of two years and afterwards, beyond the initial period of time, commission members were to be re-selected. According to the distributed information activities of the commissions was than scheduled to cease henceforth. However, the commission is stilling monitoring Georgian prisons.
Arrests in Akhalkalaki Municipality Continue
August 1, 2008