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On 19 February 2015, the life-sentenced prisoner Teimuraz Sharashenidze, placed in the penitentiary facility №8, addressed to the Human Rights Center.
Teimuraz Sharashenidze wrote about the initiative of the Deputy Minister of Justice Sandro Baramidze, which he made at the session of the Human Rights Parliamentary Committee on February 11. According to the initiative of the Ministry of Justice, the criteria of the eligibility of cassation lawsuits at the Supreme Court shall be increased and additional provision will appear in the Article 310 of the
Criminal
Procedural Code according to which people will be able to appeal to the Appeal Court if the violation of the articles of the UN Convention is confirmed.
According to Teimuraz Sharashenidze, the government is again deceiving people. He believes it is impossible to achieve re-investigation of the case and appeal to the court with the confirmed facts of torture and inhuman treatment when prosecutors, who implemented the instructions during the Unite National Movement’s governance and sent thousands of people to prison, are still on their positions.
Sharashenidze wrote that participants of the committee session agreed that the commission on identifying the miscarriages of justice will not be created but they work on the creation of its alternative mechanism. The prisoner said it is another bluff that aims to prolong the process.
"I have been looking forward to the establishment of the commission on identifying the miscarriages of justice for the past two years; like all arbitrary prisoners in Georgia. I have been in prison for 10 years for the crime which I have not committed. There are more than twenty life-sentenced prisoners, whose charges were aggravated. Society has forgotten that not everybody was freed from prison as a result of the amnesty, and there are innocent people among them. Can anybody imagine when you are buried alive?!” Teimuraz Sharashenidze wrote in his letter.
Teimuraz Sharashenidze states it is important to restore justice in the country but nothing has done for it yet.