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Prisoners Are Still Tortured

March 15, 2010

The reason of beating inmates in prison became the complaint filed against the director.

In 2006 three prisoners submitted complaint to public defender stating the prison administration members physically assaulted them. The instruction of former public defender Sozar Subari - not to repeat similar facts again - was not taken into consideration. The torture of prisoners continued for a long time. They broke teeth of a prisoner during beating. However, he had new teeth denture in order to keep the fact in secret

Sozar Subari requested the Human Rights Centre to involve in prison monitoring in 2009. After the lawyer of the centre Nino Andriashvili involved the monitoring, two prisoners were taken to Kutaisi prison and it is difficult to visit them. Nowadays Vazha Gegenava, one prisoner among the three, is in Kutaisi. One was sent back to Rustavi detention setting # 6 a short time ago, where the third prisoner was serving his term. Both prisoners (Rudik Ovakimiani and Imeda Butkhuzi) were taken to penitentiary department #2, where the director of the prison Goga Kiknavelidze met them scolding.
 
The prisoners filed one more complaint against the director and handed it to Nino Andriashvili, who applied to the prison administration to register the document. The representative of Public Defender met the prisoners and confirmed the prisoners had injuries on their body.

According to Nino Andriashvili, the prison director may abuse them physically after studying the complaint.

Nowadays, the lawyer of the Human Rights Centre will submit a suit to the office of chief prosecutor, where the investigation on abusing power was launched in 2006.

Ana Sheshaberidze

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