Tbilisi. On August 26, Human Rights Center held press-conference about physical assault of a citizen by police officers in the Vake Saburtalo district police unit # 2. "On August 14, about 1:00 am, Giorgi Tsomaia applied to the police unit # 2 located in Vazha-Pshavela Avenue close to his home and asked police officer on duty to return his cell-phone which police had seized from him during previous imprisonment. ...Giorgi Tsomaia clarified that senior police officer at the police unit # 2 called him "greenhorn” and rudely asked why he had applied to the police during night hours. ...the senior police officer took him into the room and about eleven persons (supposedly they were all police officers) ruthlessly beat Tsomaia. Tsomaia said they beat him in the chest, head and belly; they degraded and sputtered him".

Source: humanrights.ge