GYLA will provide the office of the chief prosecutor with information about facts of inhumane treatment

Throughout recent days GYLA’s lawyers visited inmates in prisons N8 in Gldani, N6, N16, N17 in Rustavi and N3 in Batumi. Statements and applications of 240 prisoners, signed by 90 prisoners, will be provided to the office of the chief prosecutor.

Inmates specify names, surnames and nicknames of those personnel who were allegedly involved in facts of ill-treatment and torture. Below is the list of persons implicated by prisoners in each individual penitentiary facility. We have preserved the list intact, without removing names of persons who have already been arrested. You may view the list in the document attached below.

GYLA will also provide the office of the chief prosecutor once again, the list of GYLA’s clients, whose applications served as grounds for launching a probe but without any success. Some investigations were launched in 2009 and still continue, ineffectively. Applications have been filed over gross violation of rights of GYLA’s clients by administrations of penitentiary establishments (medical facility N18, Ksani N15 Prison, Gldani N8 Prison) as well as police.

We will also provide the office of the chief prosecutor with a collection of facts of ill-treatment in prisons from Public Defender’s 2006-2011 reports. It also provides information about individuals implicated by prisoners in acts of ill-treatment. Purpose of the document is to inform the office of the chief prosecutor as well as public and show that ill-treatment and investigation of ill-treatment is a systemic problem that dates back many years ago. Further, we demanded that the office of the prosecutor keep us informed about course of each individual investigation as well as their results.

Facts of ill-treatment in prisons featured in 2006-2011 reports of the Public Defender of Georgia can be viewed in the file below.