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Nineteen-year-old Mentally Disabled Prisoner Was Beaten in Prison Several Times

July 26, 2007

On April 23 2007, Judge M. Khamashuridze at the Batumi Civil Court sentenced nineteen-year-old Igor Savko to imprisonment who serves his term in Batumi Detention Setting # 3. Parents of the prisoner claim that their son did not commit hooliganism.

Parents said in their conversation with the Human Rights Center (HRIDC) that Igor Savko is a disabled person and the officers from the detention setting have beaten him twice. Initially the prisoner was beaten at Tbilisi Jail and then in Batumi. Father of the condemned, Vladimer Savko said that his son is mentally disabled and needs urgent treatment. Despite several petitions of the parents the results of the judicial-psychiatric examination of the prisoner was not handed to them.

Vladimer Savko said in his conversation with the Human Rights Center that the life of his son is in danger. He demands to place Igor Savko in Psychological Hospital.

Bakur Bolkvadze, lawyer for the Human Rights Center’s Adjara Office is protecting the rights of Igor Savko.

Human Rights Center is deeply concerned regarding the situation and calls upon the corresponding bodies, Public Defender’s Office, media sources and non-governmental organizations to react on the situation.  

Gela Mtivlishvili, Adjara

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