Nino Devidze
On December 13, Human Rights Center’s representatives held press-conference on the problems of people convicted for the so-called Kintsvisi Case in the past. The Center’s representatives said current government does not try to investigate facts of torture and inhuman treatment in the prisons during previous years and does not intend to review hundreds of cases, on which court had passed illegal judgments.
Human Rights Center petitioned to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia on April 5, 2013 and requested to study the case of the people arrested in Kintsvisi on May 26, 2011 and to react on the torture and inhuman treatment against them.
Lawyer Nestan Londaridze of the Human Rights Center said this case is unpleasant example of the breached constitutional rights that become obvious as soon as we study the criminal case materials. She added that the petition of the Center was not responded so far that proves the re-investigation of the case is artificially dragged out.
Together with the investigation of the torture and inhuman treatment facts, Human Rights Center requests establishment of the Commission on Judiciary Shortcomings. “The commission is the main leverage to restore justice so much expected not only by the people arrested in Kintsvisi but by thousands other people. Human Rights Center believes the Commission shall be timely established and revise illicit judgments, that creates problems in the judiciary of our country. However, Prosecutor’s Office still has leverage, to investigate the case, which were launched during previous government.”
One of the political prisoners Nikoloz Goguadze calls on the new government to rely on the new circumstances, which will assist every victim person to restore the justice.”