National Preventive Mechanism In accordance with the Istanbul Protocol expert group interviewed and carried out primary medical examination of 113 inmates. As a result of study it as revealed that, 100 people out of 113 noted use of methods of systematic physical torture both in the penitentiary system and police. Methods used were revealed: numerous facts of beating using blunt objects, including, hands, feasts, legs, bludgeon, putting an iron hat on a head and then beating, tying to a corpse in a morgue and then beating, sexual threats, undressing and putting in a offensive pose, non-physiological position, inflicting a burn with a red hot iron, burning with a cigarette. Psychological methods named: placing in inhuman conditions, isolation-deprivation, making unreal choice between cooperation under threat, inadequate medical care in prison conditions, threats of sexual abuse. We have studied data of injury description journals of the penitentiary establishments. The said injuries are not described in accordance with international standards of torture prevention and documentation in any of the prisons, it does not contain information on where an inmate received the injury, in what situation, from whom, why, how and what were physical and psychological consequences. It is noteworthy that as a result of interviewing both inmates and medical personnel it appears that the medical personnel of the penitentiary did not conduct primary medical examination protecting confidentiality. For example, according to one juvenile in a juvenile prison of N8 prison, “when we were beaten up a doctor was sitting nearby and has written that he has not identified any injuries”. Bruise 45 23 2 12 78 0 65 8 0 2 26 2 207 2 19 30 12 533 0.08 3 Hypermia 34 4 0 11 0 0 19 0 0 2 4 0 1 0 4 8 0 87 0.01 4 Wound 813 5 Fracture 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 3 11 6 0 37 0.01 6 Bruise/ swelling 32 9 3 58 13 0 20 0 0 0 4 6 86 6 20 10 4 271 0.04 7 General bruising of body 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.00 8 Burn 6 2 3 12 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 12 0 43 0.01 9 Other (to indicate) one person drank bleach 1 4 0 21 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 1 1 5 12 2 2 56 0.01 Total 1319 123 47 540 811 4 675 18 79 0 450 83 640 14 109 27 N19 N15 124 72 N18 N14 2 37 35 268 618 0 383 4 N17 N1 49 2 N16 N12 0 N9 N11 7 N8 3 156 102 0 180 6 Indentation N7 N4 42 1 N6 N3 388 Injuries N5 N2 Statistical analysis of reports presented by the penitentiary system: Total F 18 1227 0.18 82 130 716 90 4421 0.66 4 536 98 1069 112 306 811 126 6678 1.00 2 0 202 62 N19 13 N18 0 N17 11 N16 6 N15 6 N14 4 N1 36 N12 N9 N11 Neck N8 3 N7 Face area N6 2 N5 Cranial area N4 1 N3 Localization N2 Injury localization according to trauma journal Total 0 4 3 36 4 15 21 1 162 0.02 F 23 12 31 127 0 80 15 0 1 56 20 239 10 58 78 15 967 0.14 18 57 0 1 44 12 54 9 16 60 9 409 0.06 8 13 44 0 2 www.ombudsman.ge NPM Report