On February 4, 2016, the Public Defender held a working meeting with members of the renewed Special Preventive Group. The meeting focused on the rights and duties defined by the Organic Law on Public ...

Training was held in the technique of writing for the members of the Special Preventive Group within the framework of a joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe "Human rights in ...

On January 25, 2016, the Public Defender's Office approved a new composition of the Special Preventive Group. The approval was preceded by a public competition and interviews with the candidates for m ...

The Public Defender has presented the third quarterly bulletin of the National Preventive Mechanism. The bulletin provides information about two important special reports, which was prepared and prese ...

One of the most important obligations of the Public Defender within the goals of the National Preventive Mechanism is to effectively protect and monitor human rights in the penitentiary and other clos ...

On 19 November 2015 Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili presented a special report of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) on the requests/complaints procedures in the penitentiary system. Prisoners&r ...

An innovation - monitoring of joint return operations - was introduced in the work of the National Preventive Mechanism in 2014. It is important that the monitoring has become regular, as a result of ...

On 7 October 2015 the Public Defender published a report on the visit of a special preventive group to the penitentiary facility N2. The visit revealed that the practice of visual surveillance, used f ...

On 1 October 2015 Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili held a presentation of a monitoring report of the Department of Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Public Defender's Office and the National ...

The Public Defender of Georgia has issued a report on the visit carried out by the Special Preventive Group to the penitentiary facility No 7. After detecting significant violations during the visit t ...

The Public Defender of Georgia has addressed Minister of Corrections and Probation Kakha Kakhishvili with a recommendation on ensuring the prisoners’ right to use stores in penitentiary institut ...

Representatives of the Public Defender's Office of Georgia paid a training visit to the Ombudsman's Office of Serbia on July 21-24. The visit was attended by Deputy Public Defender Natia Katsitadze, H ...