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 ...

By the decision of July 5, 2021, the Constitutional Court of Georgia granted the constitutional suit of the Public Defender of Georgia and declared unconstitutional the rule established by the Impriso ...

On July 5, 6 and 7, 2021, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) held a working meeting to enhance cooperation between the State Inspector’s Office and th ...

Situation of penitentiary health care Read more: National Preventive Mechanism Report 2020 https://bit.ly/3fG6OAU #26June is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

The imbalance caused by the large number of prisoners and the small number of penitentiary staff fails to provide a safe, secure or orderly environment that is necessary for the rehabilitation and re- ...