On June 2, 2023, a working meeting was held between the Public Defender’s Office and the Special Penitentiary Service. Levan Ioseliani, Public Defender of Georgia, and Nika Tskhvarashvili, Direc ...

On March 24, 2023, Public Defender Levan Ioseliani visited Women's Penitentiary Establishment No. 5 in Rustavi. The Public Defender viewed the institution's infrastructure, living conditions, personal ...

On November 3-4, 2022, in Bakuriani, employees of the Public Defender's Office held a working meeting/seminar with representatives of psychiatric institutions, where the topics of discussion were the ...

On October 20, 2022, the Head of the National Preventive Mechanism (Department) of the Georgian Public Defender’s Office, Nika Kvaratskhelia, was elected a member of the Subcommittee on Preventi ...

On July 11-13, 2022, representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Kyrgyz Republic paid a study visit to Georgia. The purpose of the visit was to receive information about the years of p ...

On July 11, 2022, the Public Defender of Georgia organized a public discussion of the findings and recommendations of the report on the ad hoc monitoring carried out by the European Committee for the ...

On June 16, 2022, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) published a report on its ad hoc visit to Georgia, which along with a number of pressing issues, focuses on signs of inform ...

On May 11, 2022, the Public Defender of Georgia and Prevention for Progress, a non-governmental organization, presented a joint report “Impact of Covid 19 on the Health and Other Rights of Priso ...

On March 7-8, 2022, representatives of the Public Defender of Georgia visited Rome at the invitation of the Italian National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Liberty, where ...

On January 26, 2022, Nino Lomjaria, Public Defender of Georgia, met with Régis Brillat, Executive Secretary of the Committee against Torture (CPT), in Strasbourg. The Public Defender thanked th ...

On October 12-15, 2021, an international training was held with the assistance of the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights an ...

According to the Constitution of Georgia, the Public Defender of Georgia has the authority to apply to the Constitutional Court when the basic constitutional rights of certain persons are violated. To ...