On December 21, 2023, Public Defender Levan Ioseliani visited Geguti Penitentiary Establishment No. 14. He met and talked with foreign citizens and prisoners with disabilities placed in the institutio ...

The Public Defender of Georgia welcomes the adoption of the new penal code. Although there is still room for improvements in the code, it is an important step towards better protection of prisoners' r ...

In the period from October 30 to November 3, 2023, employees of the Criminal Justice Department of the Public Defender’s Office, together with the regional division, held the third stage of meet ...

The violation of the convict’s right to correspondence has been confirmed in Penitentiary Establishment No. 6. When applying to the Public Defender's Office, convict R.S. indicated that on April ...

On October 19, 2023, the group of specialists/experts set up by the Public Defender of Georgia made another visit to the VivaMedi clinic in order to assess the condition of Mikheil Saakashvili, 3rd Pr ...

On October 25, 2023, Public Defender Levan Ioseliani visited Juvenile Penitentiary Establishment No. 11; He inspected the institution's infrastructure, residential building, dining room and other auxi ...

Based on the substantiated proposal of the Public Defender, the inspection carried out in the Monitoring Department of the Special Penitentiary Service revealed the improper performance of duties by a ...

On October 17, 2023, the Public Defender of Georgia presented a special report titled “Practical Analysis of Classification of Cases under General and Special Articles of Ill-Treatment”. T ...

On October 10-11, 2023, employees of the Public Defender’s Office were trained on legal writing. The training was led by expert Tamar Tomashvili. The expert presented the methods of legal writin ...

The Supreme Court of Georgia acquitted a convict in a case on which the Public Defender of Georgia had applied to the court with the opinion of a friend of the court (amicus curiae). According to the ...

On September 22, an authorized representative of the Public Defender met with all three citizens detained during the Gldani developments. One of the detainees, Nikanor Melia, spoke about verbal and ph ...

On September 21, 2023, the Public Defender of Georgia, Levan Ioseliani, visited semi-open and closed penitentiary establishment No. 15 in Ksani. Levan Ioseliani talked to prisoners, met with the admin ...