Situation during visit
(See: E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.3)
Information received in the reporting
period
closely cooperated with the Council of
Europe (CoE) Committee on the
Prevention of Torture and the CoE
regional Project ―Combating Ill-treatment
and Impunity‖. According to the Report to
the Government on the visit to Georgia
carried out by the European Committee for
the Prevention of Torture or inhuman and
degrading treatment or punishment from 5
to 15 February 2010, no cases of torture
have been revealed during the committee‘s
examination. In addition, the CPT has also
noted 80% decrease in number of illtreatment cases from the police in course
of last five years.
The Criminal Justice Reform (CJR) InterAgency Coordination Council, which was
created in 2008, continues its activities in
the criminal justice sphere. The
Government periodically drafts progress
reports on the implementation of the
reforms within the framework of the
criminal justice reform strategy and action
plans. The progress reports are published
on the webpage of the Ministry of Justice
of Georgia. The information about the
ongoing reforms is publicly available at
the Council‘s website. Within the
framework of the Criminal Justice reform
the following legislative acts were
adopted: the new Criminal Procedure
Code of Georgia, New Imprisonment
Code, the Juvenile Justice Prevention
Strategy and the Prison Overcrowding
Concept. Currently, the CJR Council
works on the revision of the existing
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Recommendations
(E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.3)
Steps taken in previous years
(See: A/HRC/4/33/Add.2,
A/HRC/7/3/Add.2 and
A/HRC/16/52/Add.2)
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