In accordance with Article 21 of the Organic Law of Georgia on the Public Defender of Georgia, the Public Defender has addressed the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia with a recommendation to immediately ensure the exercise of all the law-given rights of administrative prisoners – Giorgi Jikia, Giorgi Natsvlishvili, Vakhtang Shakarashvili, and Kakhaber Mumladze, as well as to study the facts of violation of rights and respond in an appropriate manner, in particular, to discuss the issue of disciplinary responsibility of those persons whose actions violated the rights of the aforementioned prisoners.

On August 31, 2012, representatives of the Public Defender of Georgia met the persons who had been sentenced to administrative imprisonment and placed in the Tbilisi Temporary Detention Isolator No. 2 – Giorgi Jikia, Goirgi Natsvlishvili, and Vakhtang Shakarashvili, as we as the person placed in the Gardabani TDI – Kakhaber Mumladze. The prisoners noted that their rights were violated grossly in the temporary detention isolators.

According to G. Jikia, G. Natsvlishvili, and V. Shakarashvili, in TDI No. 2 they are not allowed to exercise their law-given rights, in particular, they cannot exercise their rights to receive visitors, use the telephone, take a walk, and cannot take a shower, have items of hygiene, as well as newspapers, magazines and religious literature.

According to K. Mumladze, in addition to his being unable to exercise his law-given rights, the administration of the Gardabani TDI prevented him from sending an application to the Public Defender. He stated that he was on a hunger strike and, for this reason, demanded medical supervision, though the administration did not satisfy the aforementioned demand.