Monitoring of agencies subordinated to the Georgian Interior Ministry
The second half of 2012
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
515
Mtskheta-Mtianeti Region
136
Kakheti Region
407
Kvemo Kartli Region
297
Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti ...
952
Shida Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti Region
568
20
Adjara-Guria Region
566
5 3
99
7 3
15
44
1513
Tbilisi N1 TDI
92
Injury
5
5 0
Tbilisi N2 TDI
Total
2
8
832
5
20
Complaints expressed
Prisoners with injuries admitted to penitentiary establishments in 2012
Admitted with injuries
Injured during admission
136
105
103
81
76
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Case of Zurab L.
According to Zurab L., while being in the temporary detention isolator he became unwell several times and emergency
medical service was called four times. And on June 5th, 2012 the detained was transferred to Senaki district hospital.
The report of external examination of the detained in the Senaki temporary detention isolator states that on June 4th,
2012, at the moment of admission to the isolator, bruises were noted on Zurab L.’s right eye area of as well as left
kidney and both knee areas, while bruising and swelling was marked on the left ankle area.
NPM Report
2012
On June 8th, 2012 a citizen applied to Public Defender with a statement in which she demanded from Public Defender
Office to study a fact of beating of her husband Zurab L. by policemen during detention. On June 11th, 2012
representative of Public Defender met and interviewed accused Zurab L. who was placed in establishment N4 of the
penitentiary system. The inmate noted that on June 3rd, 2012 he was walking on a street in the town of Senaki when
an unknown man dressed in black clothes got him by the neck, started verbally abusing and beating him while calling
for other persons. In the words of the inmate, four persons approached him, knocked him down and started beating
him, after which they put handcuffs on him, pushed him into a car and took him to the Senaki police. As the accused
remarked the fact of his beating in the street was witnessed by members of his family and neighbors. As he explained
while taking from the place of detention to the police building policemen continued to physically as well as verbally
assault him.
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