Georgia
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Géorgie : tuberculose, les prisons, viviers pour les souches multirésistantes
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Georgia : Public Defender presents annual report of National Preventive Mechanism
The report highlights that establishment of effective investigation mechanism is necessary for an independent investigation of ill-treatment in the penitentiary system, which had been repeatedly mentioned by the Public Defender in his recommendations earlier too. Practical implementation of dynamic…Council of Europe : prison conditions improving in Georgia
The Committee of Ministers in the Council of Europe said the current Georgian Government had addressed the issue of prison overcrowding. A special committee within the Council of Europe (CoE) has released a document assessing the improving situation in Georgia’s prisons and the efforts of the curre…