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Dimitri Lortkipanidze Blames Government for Starting New Wave of Punishment Against Prisoners

October 24, 2011

Member of parliamentary faction Ertoba Samartlianobisatvis, MP Dimitri Lortkipanidze blames government for starting a new wave of punishment against the prisoners.

As Lortkipanidze stated at the press conference held on October 21st a new initiative of amendments to the Code of Prisoners has been submitted to Parliament according to which the prisoners are going to be completely isolated. According to his explanation, in case of disciplinary violation, the prisoners are going to be deprived of following rights: right to talk on the phone, right to receive the private correspondence, right to use the service of the store of the prison and right to send financial parcel.

Dimitri Lortkipanidze called on the diplomatic corpus and representatives of international organizations to pay attention to this issue and asked the society “to raise alarm” on these facts.

MP is sure that the grounds of this change is to exercise terror and fully isolate political prisoners from the outside world.

The author of the Amendments to the Code of Prisoners is the Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance of Georgia. The initiators are Pavle Kublashvili, Kakha Anjaparidze, Zviad Kukava and Andro Alavidze.

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