“Study on the Practice of Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Penitentiary System”
Tbilisi. "Open Society - Georgia"
Foundation and the "International Center for Prison Studies" have
presented a study on November 4. The "Study on the practice of torture and
inhuman treatment in the penitentiary system of Georgia" covers the period
of 2003-2012.
"The
report includes brand new empirical data from interviews with inmates and
former inmates ... throughout the study, face-to-face interviews were conducted
with 1200 convicted persons, 600 of which are former inmates.
Study
results answer the following principal questions: when did inhuman and degrading
treatment start, how frequent and systemic was it; which key factors were
triggering torture; what was the purpose of photo-video documenting of torture;
what physical or psychological methods of torture were used most often; did
torture occur in specific prisons or across the country; was it pursued by a
concrete group of one prison administration or it was an official policy.
The
report includes concrete recommendations for eradicating similar practices in
the future and the prison administration issues in general", says the
Foundation's web page.
Source:
osgf.ge
