Author of the Footage about the Accused for Girgvliani’s Murder Believes He Is Arbitrary Prisoner

Gia Alavidze, inmate of Prison # 9, is author of those video-footage which was depicted by Maestro TV in 2009 and presented “extraordinary” imprisonment conditions created for the convicted for Sandro Girgvliani’s murder. (see the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiL3G70DgV8) After the video was showed, Alavidze was arrested for swindle and sentenced to twenty-year-imprisonment. Alavidze believes he is arbitrary prisoner and connects it will the footage. He appeals to the society with below-stated open letter.

Open Letter

In several days, Georgian population will learn real circumstances from Sandro Girgvliani’s murder and incident that occurred in Sharden Bar before his murder on January 27-28, 2006.

Society also knows that officers of the Constitutional Security Department of the MIA Geronti Alanaia, Aleksandre Gachava, Avtandil Aptsiauri and Mikheil Bibiluridze “served” imprisonment for the crime.

On May 25, 2009 in the program Profession Journalist TV-Company Maestro released information about real conditions the accused people served their terms in Avchala Prison # 10. In the same program I participated as a respondent and spoke about illicit activities of the so-called accused people. For example: in August of 2008 they voluntarily left the Avchala Prison from August 11-26; during imprisonment term they used to visit CSD office (Vazha-Pshavela ave. # 72, Tbilisi).

The video-footage, released by the TV-Company, was prepared by me and I had given it to journalist Natia Mikiashvili. One night before the footage was depicted, an explosion happened in the yard of TV-Company Maestro in Poti Street, Tbilisi. After October 2012, I provided the chief prosecutor’s office of Georgia with the information about Sandro Girgvliani’s murder case together with material evidence and part of the footage which was released by Maestro TV in 2009. I also gave them the processor of the computer which the aforementioned people used during imprisonment and a record of the phone-calls in 597 pages. 

As a result of it, I was arrested on August 12, 2009. It is another issue how difficult it was for me to save the footage and then deliver it to the Prosecutor’s Office in my present situation. For all that I was sentenced to 20-year-imprisonment. I spent 1 year and 10 months in Gldani Prison # 8 and then I was moved to Matrosovi Prison # 9 where I have stayed till today (based on D. Chakua’s decree # 6342 of July 12, 2010) because we could not attract the attention of present administration of the Penitentiary Department. However, we hear a lot of versions of TV and public fantasies of its director.

Despite the changed political situation in the country, government of Georgia had fully bureaucratic reaction on it because the complaints sent to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office are forwarded to the same prosecutors, who fabricated our criminal cases and faked circumstances, influenced witnesses and made discriminatory statements against those political figures who were in the opposition at that time but are in government now; they even linked publication of the materials with the demonstration of May 26, 2009.

So, it is not prisoner’s fantasy that same prosecutors receive appeals on old cases. You can see the document in the attached file (p.20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25….)

Not to say anything about the activities of the Members of the Georgian Parliament, Human Rights Committee and Committee for Civil Integration Committee, which send template replies to my applications if somebody replied to me at all.

I want to thank to Public Defender of Georgia Ucha Nanuashvili and Chairman of the Georgian Bar Association Zaza Khatiashvili for their attention and compassion to me.

It is difficult to believe in the declared “restoration of justice” when legal details are neglected by the government of Georgia and relevant committees of the parliament; it is interesting why their position has changed today or what hamper them when they were busy to appellate different topics before October 1, 2012. If they left us in the hands of the same fair judiciary system whose conference on June 3, 2013 demonstrated their general position and intentions, it is interesting what other expectation the members of the current government had. Law does not link judges with each other but those crimes that they have committed during many years.

In March-April of 2013 Chief Prosecutor of Georgia A. Kbilashvili and Tbilisi Prosecutor M. Mtsariashvili publicly spoke about illicit procedures conducted during preliminary investigation and imprisonment period in Sandro Girgvlian’s murder case in different media sources. People, who participated in the accident and were in Okrokana Cemetery, were not imprisoned either. They did not speak about the footage which I had given to them. They did not even mention that famous video-recordings which were depicted in May of 2009, were provided by me. They did not say that it was real ground for my imprisonment and did not speak about liability of those prosecutors who committed crimes against m. Since Georgian legislation does not envisage revision of executed “illicit” verdicts, I requested to start criminal prosecution against concrete prosecutors. In presence of the lawyer I handed the evidence to the representative o the Chief Prosecutor’s office, which demonstrated their illegal activities but Prosecutor’s office has not responded yet.

I want to hear the position of Ms. Eka Beselia, chairwoman of Human Rights Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, why the Committee did not discuss my November 5, 2012 petition on granting the status of political prisoner to the person. If it is was caused by technical problems, then when the second stage will start? Why did not she meet me when she visited Prison # 9 on November 15, 2012, when I had been on hunger-strike for the second day and why did not she send at least one committee member, when I was sending petitions to her committee twice per month and eight months have passed already?

I also want to know positions of the Minister of Justice Thea Tsulukiani and Minister of Legal Aid and Corrections Sozar Subari about the list of “good conducts” by prisoners, which can become ground to allow prisoners to have TV-set as it happened in case of Mr. Bachana Akhalaia and former prisoner Irakli Okruashvili whilst other arbitrary prisoners and ordinary prisoners could not watch it when they are waiting for the “restoration of justice.’ Or other laws are working for former senior officials in Prison # 9.

June 10, 2013