31 May 2007, 13:10

Georgia: administration of Rustavi Colony No. 2 promises to improve custody conditions of inmates

Ms. Elene Tevdoradze, Chair of the Committee for Human Rights and Civil Integration of Georgia, has got a promise from the administration of Colony Two in Rustavi to start an immediate solution of the problems enumerated in the inmates' letter.

The day before yesterday, 353 inmates of Rustavi Colony No. 2 kept under strict and general custody regimes applied to the power authorities and OSCE Representative Office in Georgia with a complaint against intolerable custody conditions.

The inmates write in their letter that back this February they addressed their complaint to the Department for Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia against their custody conditions.

The inmates state in their appeal that frequent violations of the Law "On Inmates" take place in the Colony. They complain also of impossibility to observe elementary hygiene rules, as water is supplied from time to time, the bed clothes are not changed for long. According to their letter, the quality and the amount of nutrition is becoming worse from day to day, they have no chance to use telephone and to get medical aid.

Author: Alena Aleschenko, CK correspondent

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