To increase the number of those TDIs where a medical centre is functioning and to ensure
documenting injuries on the persons taken to those TDIs is carried out in accordance with the
procedure approved by Order no. 691 of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia of 8
December 2016;
To develop a guideline document/instruction for police officers regarding explaining rights to
arrested persons;
To ensure in a pilot mode uninterrupted video recording of questioning an arrested in several
police stations;
To ensure provision of police departments, divisions and units with brochures on the rights of
an arrested person which will be handed out to arrested persons. Furthermore, to ensure that
posters are posted on visible places on the walls of the police administrative buildings with the
contact details of the Public Defender’s hotline;
To ensure in a pilot mode the practice of taking an arrested person straight to a temporary
detention isolator immediately after arrest;
To ensure developing a guideline with detailed instructions for medical professions employed
in TDIs concerning comprehensive documentation of injuries on detained persons;
To ensure developing detailed technical instructions for medical professionals employed in
TDIs about taking quality photographs;
To ensure laying down rules for uniform and systematised storage of photographs taken by
medical professions employed in TDIs; and
To ensure conducting training sessions for medical professions employed in TDIs about
instructions on photo-recording injuries on detained persons and storing the respective
photographic material.
4. PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS FROM ILL-TREATMENT
Whether a place where those held during migration proceedings is a place of detention depends on
whether the individuals held there are free to leave it at will. If not, these constitute places of
deprivation of liberty and all the safeguards applicable to those held in detention must be respected
fully.169 Foreigners being in Georgia without a legal basis can be placed in the Temporary
Accommodation Centre (hereinafter the “TAC”) up to 3 months for their expulsion from Georgia. This
term can be extended for another 6 months based on the reasoned motion filed with a court.170 Besides,
169
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Revised Deliberation No. 5 on deprivation of liberty of migrants,
para. 45, published on 7 February 2018.
170 The Law of Georgia on the Legal Status of Foreigners and Stateless Persons, Article 64.
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