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Special Operative Department Does Not Return Mobile Phone to Prisoner’s Wife

February 5, 2008

Leila Khiladze, wife of the prisoner Levan Khukhuneishvili, applied to the Human Rights Center for help. She stated that she had requested the investigation to return the mobile phone of her husband several times; though in vain.

Law enforcers arrested Levan Khukhuneishvili for illegal storage of narcotics on January 9 2007. On June 22 Batumi Civil Court sentenced the condemned to eight-year-imprisonment. During the search of Levan Khukhuneishvili law enforcers withdrew mobile phone, ID card and wallet. The wallet was given back to the wife but they did not return the mobile phone. “I asked for the phone tot but the investigator Guram Diasamidze told me that it was sent to Tbilisi and they would return it back after they receive it back. However, I have not taken the phone yet,” said Leila Khiladze.

Seven months later, Guram Diasamidze, the investigator, has the same answer on the question. He avoids answering additional questions.

Tornike Ananidze, the lawyer for the Human Rights Center, stated that it is strange why the thing was not returned to the family yet. “In accordance to the Criminal Procedural Code, Article 124 every object and document shall be returned to the property owner or the possessor after the investigation ends. It is obscure why the investigation spent seven months to accomplish simple procedures.”

Maka Malakmadze, Batumi

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