Presentation – Manual about Political Prisoners in Georgia

On December 20, Human Rights House Tbilisi presented research “Manual about Political Prisoners in Georgia” in the office of the Open Society Georgia Foundation.

One of the main goals of the research was to work out criteria for the identification of status of political prisoners that have been a significant problem in Georgia.

This publication “Manual about Political Prisoners in Georgia” was prepared within the framework of the project “Uniting Georgian Civil Society to Jointly Study the Issue of Political Prisoners” and implemented by Human Rights House Tbilisi with the financial support of Open Society –Georgia Foundation. 

At the presentation, executive director of the Open Society –Georgia Keti Khutsishvili spoke about significance of the Manual. Representatives of nongovernmental organizations, mass media and family members of the political prisoners attended the presentation; former political prisoner, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, who was recently released from imprisonment, also attended the presentation and shared his opinions with the authors of the Manual.

The group working on the research unified representatives of human rights nongovernmental and media organizations. New Public Defender of Georgia Ucha Nanuashvili was head of the working group.

“Manual about Political Prisoners in Georgia” covers: review of history of political prisoners in Georgia and current situation, criteria of international organizations (CoE, Amnesty International), practice of the European Court of Human Rights in relation with the politically motivated cases, international and local reports about political prisoners in Georgia, analysis of the Georgian legislation and criteria worked out by the working group.

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