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A participant in the August war was released from prison after 10 years

February 19, 2021
On February 18, 2021, Tbilisi City Court granted the motion of Dimitri Nozadze, a lawyer within HRC, as a result of which Akaki Tokhadze, a convict with disabilities, was released from prison.
 
In 2012, a court sentenced him with 6 years of imprisonment for intentionally inflicting a damage to the property of another person.  In 2011, the accused was placed in penitentiary facility N8 being completely healthy. According to him, as a result of inhuman treatment in the prison, he became a person with disabilities of the first category.  According to the opinion of experts, his condition was not curable. In 2013, the punishment of the convict was deferred and he was released from the prison. 
 
In 2018, due to the lack of funds, he failed to submit an expert report resulting in his arrest again in January 2019. Based on the report of the expert examination conducted in penitentiary facility N18 on June 21, 2019, the sentence of Tokhadze was again deferred by one year. 
 
On January 8, 2021, Dimitri Nozadze applied to the Tbilisi City Court with a petition to release Akaki Tokhadze, a person with disabilities, from the punishment because of his health condition. On February 18, 2021, the petition was granted. 

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