Human Rights Center Starting Monitoring Female and Juvenile Prison Facilities

Human Rights Center is starting project - Monitoring Conditions of Juvenile and Female Prisoners in Georgian Penitentiary. Project covers period from February 2015 till August 2015. The project aims to reveal problems existing in prisons for female and juvenile convicts and promoting improvement of imprisonment conditions. 

In the frameworks of the project, in partnership with Office of Public Defender of Georgia, monitors of Human Rights Center will make scheduled and unscheduled visits to the female and juvenile prison facilities. Monitoring will be conducted in Rustavi #5 female and Tbilisi #11 juvenile prisons.

Journalist of Human Rights Center will prepare articles about the problems revealed through the project which will be uploaded on Human Rights Center’s web portal – www.humanrights.ge. Lawyers of Human Rights Center will also provide legal assistance to the female and juvenile prisoners regarding the violations revealed in their cases.

The project is financially supported by Embassy of Bulgaria in Georgia.

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