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The Georgian Dream Members Starving in the Isolation Wards

July 27, 2012
Kakhaber Gogiashvili, the member of coalition Georgian Dream who was arrested because of his participation in the Karaleti incident, has been starving in the Sagarejo provisional arresting isolator for eleven days already. Tsotne Shengelia another Georgian Dream member has been protesting by starving for several days. He is in the Telavi isolation ward. Vladimer Janezashvili began starving in the Telavi isolation ward in the morning of July 27.

“Vladimer Janezahvili began starving after he heard that the Appeal Court left the Gori regional court decision by force. The Gori regional court sentenced them to administrative imprisonment. Janezashvili and Shengelia are in normal conditions in Telavi isolation ward. But Gogiashvili was in the hard conditions in the Sagarejo provisional arresting isolator. Nikoloz Gabashvili, the head of isolator, together with the employees of department, tortured Gogiashvili. He did not allow Gogiashvili to sleep and he only was allowed to stand but not to sit or lay down. They also did not allow him to go to the toilet for hours, and they did not give him food. They made him curse Ivanishvili, Kaladze, and Zviadauri. Gogiashvili addressed the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia .We will address the Chief Prosecutor again to punish the culprits”, Tedo Kobakhidze, the lawyer said to the Information Centre of Kakheti.


 Kakhaber Gogiashvili, Tsotne Shengelia, and Vladimer Janezahvili were arrested because of the Karaleti incident between supporters and opponents of Georgian Dream, in Gori region on July 11. The Gori regional court sentenced them to 15 days in administrative imprisonment. The imprisonment time expires tomorrow.

According to the Information Centre of Kakheti, Kakhaber Gogiashvili will leave the isolator at 19:45p.m, Tsotne Shengelia at 20:00p.m, and Vladimer Janezahvili at 21:00p.m.

 Information Centre of Kakheti

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