Protection of Healthcare in Penitentiary System and Torture Prevention Mechanisms
the expert report. Also the mentioned report does not say whether diagnosis of “acute bronchitis” mentioned in the
report was diagnosed in his lifetime and this as a minimum indicates to inadequate medical care.
It should be additionally mentioned, that while studying expert conclusions on bodies of 19 deceased, injuries or/and
injury (17 out of them were received at prison establishments) were noted which could not have become a cause of
death, though expert reports does not even mention their origin.
TORTURE, INHUMAN TREATMENT AND TORTURE PREVENTION STANDARDS
Multiple scars (self-harm) on front surface of a stomach.
Scar (self-harm) on both upper extremities
Scar on a back, near left shoulder blade
Scars on right thigh, front surface of a right thigh and lateral surface of upper right extremity were left as a result of
burn in N18 establishment was diagnosed inadequately: diagnose was made – emotionally unstable personological
disorder with tendency to autotraumas.
NPM Report
2012
We shall note that in 2011-2012, the penitentiary system was particularly inaccessible and closed to civil intervention
that promoted development of wide practice of torture and inhuman treatment in the system. Penitentiary system was
governed through torture, methods of inhuman treatment and excessive use of psychotropic drugs that supported
formation of drug addiction and made the majority of prison population more manageable. And with video and photo
documentation of especially cruel and degrading situations representatives of the administration blackmailed tortured
individuals and that was a widespread method of torturing to achieve total control over an individual, break his/her
moral integrity. Among majority of people that passed through such torture, especially in closed environments, and
given the dead-end of situation, development of severe stress and various behavioural disorders has been observed.
The mentioned disorders compile the range of both self-aggressive actions – self-harm, suicide, para-suicide, as well
as aggressive behaviour and psychosis register disorders as well. The above-mentioned nervous and mental disorders
are broadly developed against the background of organic damage to a brain and other multi-traumatic injuries that
result in development of disorder complex and accordingly, needs implementation of complex, lengthy and multiprofile approach to treatment and habilitation. It shall be particularly noted that in this situation especially vulnerable
persons are affected the most – people with already existing mental pathologies or/and defects that even without this
have difficulties with adaptation and becoming accustomed with certain conditional regimes. We shall note that such
vulnerable groups were subjected to torture and insult in the penitentiary system of Georgia, as an example we can
cite the case of N.V. During the first imprisonment as a juvenile the latter was diagnosed at joint forensic psychiatric
examination carried out by expert group of Empathy centre with the following: averagely expressed mental retardation
(imbecility) with significant behavioural disorders F 71.1 that requires attention and treatment measures; Epilepsy with
frequent fainting G.40; with a tendency to develop epistatus G.41. Now he, in his own words, has been arrested for a
year and two months. He was tortured in the Kutaisi prison. According to the inmate, a hot iron piece was placed on his
tight thigh and upper right extremities, he was thrown down the stairs and his head was dunk in a basin allegedly for not
paying for the procedural agreement. In winter months of 2012, he does not remember exact day and month, he was
tortured in Kutaisi prison. He was beaten up in Terjola police as well. As the prisoner said, he felt so bad in the prison
that he tried to commit suicide thrice but was rescued, he said also that he was hearing voices, sometimes he thought
he was talking to someone, sometimes he was hearing someone telling him to have some tea, or to cut themselves or
sew themselves (he had been sewn before in the Kutaisi prison. He could not sleep at night just managing to fall asleep
in the morning, he recalled everything he underwent. As he said other inmates were also terribly tortured in Kutaisi. In
his words he could not control himself, was nervous and wanted to commit suicide, wanted to take his eye out, he did
not have Karbamazepam, and diazepam did not wark. He said that his doctor Ia Gelovani in Khoni used to give him
Triptazin, Azalepin, Ciclodol, Finlepsyn. In his words he should be given social benefit or pension”. Based on impartial
data he has the following:
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