Situation at Penitentiary Establishments The explanatory notes provided by inmates, made it clear, that living conditions of the convicts in the Ksani Establishment were unbearable. They were not even allowed to eat in a normal manner. Namely, the employees made them hurry and did not allow them to finish their meal; they punished them for talking in the dining hall. Regardless of the weather, prison officers made convicts to stand in the yard for hours during the daily check-ups and delayed to start it on purpose to make them stand in the rain or heat as long as possible. According to the convicts, the following employees were involved in beatings and different types of ill-treatments against them: Director Shota Tolordava, Deputy Director Bacho Rukhaia, George Parjanadze, Mamuka Shalamberidze, Levan Lezhava, Dima Chkhaidze, Nukri Kopaliani, a person called Ambrosi, Raji, Akaki Kirkitadze, Akaki nicknamed “Chepe”, Sandro, Vitali nicknamed “Adamich”, Roman, Jambul Bairamov, Ilo, Tamazi nicknamed “Chelentano”, Parna, and brothers Badri and Nukri. In addition, the convicts stated that this list was not comprehensive and they don’t know names of other employees, though they could recognize their faces. As it was mentioned above, in August 2012 the convicts from the other part of the same establishment handed the explanatory note signed by over 700 convicts to the Special Preventive Group. The note described facts of physical and other types of pressure inflicted on them and named the same prison staff. Regardless of that, the Prosecutor’s Office has not responded to these facts up to present. The same applies to the collective complaint of 161 convicts of the same establishment that was forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office by Public Defender in 2010. All the convicts were ready to provide detailed testimony to the investigation. The Special Preventive Group of Public Defender of Georgia submitted the aforementioned explanatory note to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office. Meanwhile, the PDO addressed the Prosecutor’s Office to dully and effectively investigate all the above mentioned facts of ill-treatment of convicts taking place in the Establishment N15. Penitentiary establishment No 16 in Rustavi On 23 September, 2012, the Special Preventive Group of Public Defender undertook a special monitoring in the Rustavi Establishment N16 and interviewed majority of prisoners held in the establishment. The monitoring revealed that during the first half of the day the situation in the establishment was rather tense. The convicts were expressing peaceful protest against the ongoing events and were demanding the punishment of several staff members working in the Establishment N16. They were also demanding the meeting with representatives of Public Defender. The convicts handed 336 individual complaints and a collective explanatory note signed by 416 prisoners to the staff of the Prevention and Monitoring Department of Public Defender. It should be noted that the process of handing the explanatory notes and complaints proceeded quietly and in an organized manner. The convicts ensured the signing of the explanatory note themselves and then handed it to Public Defender’s representatives. According to the convicts, the administration department staff regularly entered the cells and threw their clothes, icons, and other items to the floor; they used to take the convicts to the solitary cells just to prevent them from exercising the right to receive long-term visitors. The convicts also claimed that the staff members destroyed their supplies of water during the checks and then turned off the running water in the cells for several days, whereas the running water was available as usual on the rest of the establishment’s territory. In the case of a guest’s visit to the establishment, they closed the windows, turned off the ventilation, and left them in a stuffy cell for a certain period of time. The convicts stated that the administration would switch off the phone connection for several days, and frequently even for several weeks. The convicts also mentioned that the conditions became especially unbearable after the appointment of the former director, Vazha Tskhvediani, who was personally beating the prisoners held in the disciplinary cell together with the deputy director, Davit Mumladze, and the head of the security service, Ilo Lutidze, while other staff members were recording the process with cell phone cameras. NPM Report 2012 According to the convicts, under the old administration of the Rustavi Establishment N16, they were constantly subjected to ill-treatment which was manifested in physical and verbal abuse and punishment without a cause.