Web Portal on Human Rights in Georgia
Juvenile Detainees Beaten at Gurjaani Police Station
29.08.2008
Human Rights Center is informed that in the evening of August 27 four juvenile detainees were beaten at Gurjaani Police Department.
Parent of one of the detainees reported that police officers arrested his son as a result of car accident when their car ran into street barrier.
“My son and his friends were taken to the police station for interrogation. Gocha Sibashvili, deputy head of the police department, was drunk in the office. Sibashvili proceeded to beat the juvenile detainees in order to make them admit as which one of them was driving the car. He bashed the head of one of the boys against the wall. As a result, the boy suffered brain concussion, which was first inflicted from the accident and the situation was made worst, explained the parent of the detainee.
Regarding the case the victims has not applied to the Prosecutor’s Office to make an official complaint. They stated to the Human Rights Center that the board of the Gurjaani police department threatened that they would be arrested in the case the boys applied to the prosecutor’s office.
Soso Martashvili, the head of the Gurjaani Police Department, still denies beating the juvenile detainees and this is in spite of the facts to the violations of their human rights.
Human Rights Center
Leave your comment
OTHER NEWS
Chairman of Parliament Talked About the Activities Security Members
Ministry of Internal Affairs Is Going To Buy Supervisory Videos Carrying On Bodies
Instances of pressure exerted on individuals detained on the Case of the Ministry of Agriculture need to be investigated
Trial on Former Head of Kakheti CSD Laliashvili
Cars of Eco-Migrants from Tsalka Fined
Archive
BLOG
Historic Review of Georgian Political Advertisement
In 2005, American researchers estimated that political advertisements on TV have short (two-week) impact on voters. But the result is so rapid andDetailed...
Pre-election Advertisement Promises
Quality and Purpose of Political Advertisements
EDITORIAL
Human Rights Center to Monitor Trials on Former Senior Governmental Officials
How the detention process of former senior officials is going on; whether political motivation is detected in it and will the new initiativeDetailed...
As a result of international oppression, State Audit Office and National Bureau of Enforcement postponed the repressions
The August war- who is guilty?
POLL
How do you think, did the political prisoners, released by the Parliament of Georgia short time ago, deserve freedom?