Affairs and in the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. Unfortunately, the situation is quite complicated in terms of cooperation with the Ministry of Justice, which ultimately fails to meet the obligations under the Optional Protocol. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia In 2020, the monitoring visits to the temporary detention isolators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Establishments and the Temporary Accomodation Center of the Migration Department were conducted safely, without any restrictions or obstructions. A collaborative environment was created for the special preventive group. During the visits, the group fully received the necessary information and talked to the persons placed in police divisions and temporary detention isolators in a confidential environment without delay. The Ministry also provided us with the requested information in full and in a timely manner. The very fact that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is conducting a constructive dialogue with the Public Defender's office is welcoming A good example of a contructive dialogues is the meeting held with the Department of Migration, where we received information on both the recommendations implemented and the measures planned for the implementation of the recommendations in the near future. During the reporting period the National Preventive Mechanism communicated with the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the implementation of one of the recommendations. In particular, as a result of communication, a list of the rights of persons under administrative / criminal detention was prepared and placed in a visible manner in the common areas of the relevant structural subdivisions and territorial bodies of the Ministry and the police departments in 2020. Notwithstanding the abovementioned, the systemic recommendations issued by the Public Defender for the Ministry of Internal Affairs have not been implemented. Furhter, no dialogue was held between them to discuss the recommendations. The Public Defender expresses hope that the Ministry of Internal Affairs will carry out an active dialogue in 2021 to implement the remaining recommendations. The Ministry of Justice of Georgia In 2020, the Public Defender of Georgia published a special report4 in which we talked about the fact that the management model of semi-open type establishments was based on the informal hierarchy of prisoners, where the so-called "prison watchers" provided fictitious order in prisons aiming at silencing inmates and prevent them from talking about their problems. The publication of this report was followed by public attacks on the Public Defender and illegal actions by the Minister of Justice and the Penitentiary Service. Encouragement of illegal actions against the Public Defender and representatives of the Public Defender's Office started on January 21, 2020 at the sitting of the Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, where the Minister of Justice of Georgia tried to discredit the Public Defender in response to an important speech made by her. At the mentioned sitting, with the gross violation of the law, the Minister of Justice played video recording of a confidential meeting held in a The follow-up report of the monitoring visit to N2, N8, N14 and N15 penitentiary institutions is available at the following address: https://www.ombudsman.ge/res/docs/2019121618092132463.pdf [last visited 01.03.21]. 4 9