Temporary Detention Isolator (TDI) under the subordination of Human Rights Protection and Monitoring Main Division of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia TREATMENT During the monitoring, finding that has to be considered as certainly positive, is that none of the detainees in temporary detention has expressed any complaints as regards the detention facility staff, concerning any sort of inappropriate treatment. The same can be said of released prisoners from other prisons. It is regrettable, that during 2012, some instances of inappropriate behaviour by the detention facility staff were identified and revealed. The Office of Public Defender received appeals in which detained individuals raised concerns and drew attention to inappropriate conduct, behaviour and treatment of prisoners by Temporary Detention Isolator staff. This was especially seen with regards to individuals with different political views, who had been taking part in opposition activities. The same was identified with regards to persons detained after 26 May 2011, who subsequently were put into temporary detention isolators. (Further see Public Defender Parliamentary Report, 2011). The Cases of Manuchar A., Irakli C., and Irakli D. On 27 May 2012, during Public Defender’s representative visit of these individuals in the temporary detention isolator, all three were stating that they had not received food for the entire day and had not been provided with bed sheets. Also, according to these individuals, when being put in the temporary detention isolator, the staff ordered them to take off their clothes and do squats three times in a row. In his explanation given to Public Defender’s representative, Manuchar A. stated that during his administrative detention period (26-29 May) the temporary detention isolator staff verbally abused him in a constant manner, as well as constantly reminded him of his political views. Additionally, according to Manuhar A, it was often the case that temporary detention isolator staff were hitting his cell door and making noise, so that the prisoner did not have the possibility to sleep. According to the explanatory note of Irakli D. (detention period: 26-30 May) and Irakli C. (detention period: 26-31 May), they too were subjected to verbal abuse by the temporary detention isolator staff. According to the latter, the NPM Report 2012 In May 2012, in the Regional Temporary Detention Isolator for Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, the representatives of Public Defender met with Manuchar A., Irakli C., and Irakli D. who had been placed in administrative detention. According to these individuals, there had been instances when the temporary detention isolator staff was treating them inappropriately.