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There Are Unbearable Conditions in the Cell of Kartlos Gharibashvili

December 17, 2009

Lawyer Kartlis Gharibashvili is in inhuman conditions in pretrial detention setting. His attorney Zurab Rostiashvili stated that Gharibashvili is together with 7 more prisoners in the Cell # 14 in poorest conditions.

“There is open toilet in the cell which is not supplied with water. Inmates can wash the toilet pot only by the water in bottles. Clothes and food are scattered on the floor of the cell which has space of maximum 3 sq. meters. All 7 inmates sleep on one coach dressed in cloths. The coach is used as a chair and bed. They have to eat on concrete floor and go to the toilet in front of each other. They do not have right to have a pen, toothbrush, comb. Inmates cannot shave because they do not have corresponding apparatus. They cannot wash or take a bath, they do not have books. They sleep when the light is on. There is tough air in the cell and inmates cannot walk in fresh air. Similar conditions threats the health of inmates,” said Zurab Rostiashvili.

According to Rostiashvili, several HQs were created for the release and protection of the rights of Kartlos Gharibashvili, author of Manifest of the Lawyer of Georgia. Rostiashvili appeals to political parties, civil entities, embassies accredited in Tbilisi, international organizations accredited in Georgia to support them to monitor the defense of prisoners’ rights.

Lawyer Kartlos Gharibashvili has been in the pretrial detention setting of the main department of human rights and monitoring of the MIA for 12 days already. He has been sentenced to 15-day administrative imprisonment. Lawyer Zurab Rostiashvili stated that patrol policeman Vepkhia Gachechiladze detained Kartlos Gharibashvili.

“There is a note of Gharibashvili on the detention protocol; he cursed the minister of internal affairs Vano Merabishvili. Gachechiladze has not written in the protocol that Gharibashvili cursed the minister,” said Rostiashvili.

Source: Interpressnews

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