In connection with the events
developed in corrections institutes the President made a special statement,
which “internet.ge” offers you invariably:
Mikheil Saakashvili: "What happened
in the Gldani number 8 penitentiary facility is a horrific affront to human
rights and human dignity.
Those who organized, committed and
allowed these crimes to happen will be severely punished.
The police have already arrested
most of those identified as involved in these gross abuses. Others are on the
run but being actively pursued by police.
This case had already been under
investigation because some of the perpetrators had recently been identified as
connected with organized crime figures.
Tonight, I tell all the victims of
these inhuman actions and the whole nation that the Georgia we have built and
we are all building together shall not and will not tolerate such behavior - in
its prisons or anywhere else.
We have not overcome years of
impunity and lawlessness to allow some people, whether they are from the
criminal world or, worse, from the penitentiary system itself, to commit such
crimes.
Those who were responsible for the
penitentiary system and could not prevent such atrocities have been fired.
Those who committed these crimes
will spend long years in jail.
The whole idea of our new Georgia stands
against this violence, which is a reminiscence of our past that shall be and
will be eradicated.
I ordered the relevant ministries
to work restlessly on this case, identify, arrest and bring to justice all
these criminals.
I will personally make sure that
justice is delivered.
And I will personally supervise
that the dignity of our prisoners is safeguarded in our system, against the
abuses of the members of the criminal world and of those corrupt rotten members
of the penitentiary who behave like mafia members.
I will supervise this because
every Georgian has the same right to dignity and fair treatment in the nation
we are all building together.
Our nation is based on the respect
of human rights and human dignity and it will get rid of this ugly violence!"
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