137 Violations Documented in the Police Departments

137 Violations Documented in the Police Departments

Tbilisi, Media News.   The Public Defender’s Social Monitoring Council has documented 137 violations by Tbilisi police departments between January 12 and February 9, 2005.

89 cases were classified as human rights violations and 58 as procedural ones.

The monitoring process revealed 28 detainees received body injuries, though only five of them confessed that it the cause was police violence; seven detainees reported the police applied psychological pressure to them.

The monitoring revealed that in most cases detainees were not given an explanation of their rights. Four prisoners were not even allowed to make a phone call and 14 were not provided with a copy of their charges.

Male prisoners formed the majority of the victims, but there were some juvenile violations as well.  The Monitoring Council revealed 56 cases of incorrect registering procedures by the police. 

The Council’s monitoring included visits to approximately seven prisons a day.