framework of the mentioned trainings.208 The monitoring carried out by the Special Preventive Group
showed that the quality of photos taken was still problematic. In addition, one of the doctors was
assisted by non-medical staff of a temporary detention isolator, which constitutes the violation of
medical confidentiality.
3.3. Ill-treatment
During monitoring, the Special Preventive Group received a number of reports of disproportionate,
apparently excessive use of force by police officers during detention, as well as alleged torture and other
ill-treatment after detention.209 For example:
After detention, patrol police officers pulled the person into a police car and were periodically
hitting him in his face for several minutes. After being left alone in the car for some time, the
detainee opened the door from the inside and tried to escape, but police officers made him fall to
the ground and started to beat him. They were hitting and kicking the handcuffed detainee in his
head, on his sides and all over the body.
Officers of Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Police Department, before formally
arresting a person, took the latter to the Police Department and handcuffed him in one of the
chiefs’s rooms. Four officers entered the room and told the person to admit to murder and, without
waiting for an answer, three of them made him fall to the floor and started to beat him (by kicking
and hitting him). Then they put a cellophane over his head to make it difficult for him to breathe
and continued to beat him for about 10-15 minutes in such a state. He was also threatened that his
relative would be arrested if he did not plead guilty. The detainee then agreed to testify and signed
the pre-prepared document without reading it.
One of the persons, before being arrested, was taken to the Vani District Division. In a few minutes,
four police officers entered the room and started to abuse him. One of the officers pressed his foot
hard on the detainee’s genitals. Then he was thrown to the floor and beaten. He was requested to
plead guilty. Then he was dragged to another room and was forced to look at dead person’ photos
in the police officer’s phone. One of the police officers, while demanding admission of guilt, slapped
him with his hands in both of his temples simultaneously.
208
Namely: On June 12-15, 2019, 15 participants were trained on injury documentation, and from October 28 to
November 1, 15 more participants were trained on the same issue. The Ministry's reply reads that in 2020, the
trained trainers will gradually train doctors on the rules of photographing and keeping photographs, in
accordance with the instructions.
209 As a result of the examination, the Special Preventive Group received a total of 13 complaints from 38
respondents about alleged torture and other ill-treatment by the police.
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