Significant challenges in mental health institutions are cases of hospitalization of formally voluntary patients against their will. Read more: National Preventive Mechanism Report 2020 https://bit.ly ...

On May 17, 2021, Deputy Public Defender of Georgia Giorgi Burjanadze and representatives of the Public Defender's Office met with a delegation from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture ...

The Public Defender has published a monitoring report on Penitentiary Establishment No. 10. The establishment was opened on the territory of former Establishment No. 19 (so-called former tubzone) and ...

In the context of the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus in Georgia, members of the Special Preventive Group of the Public Defender studied the epidemiological situation and protection of patien ...

In accordance with the rules of cooperation of the Public Defender's Office with non-governmental organizations, the Human Rights Center and Penal Reform International published a monitoring report on ...

The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) positively assesses the performance of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Public Defender of Georgia and posts a video showing the activities ...

In 2020, the Public Defender of Georgia published a special report, in which we talked about the fact that the management model of semi-open establishments was based on informal hierarchy of prisoners ...

In the context of the epidemic caused by novel coronavirus in Georgia, the members of the Special Preventive Group of the Public Defender studied the epidemiological situation and rights situation of ...

On May 7 and June 12, 2020, the Deputy Public Defender and members of the Special Preventive Group paid special visits to the Center for Mental Health and Prevention of Addiction Ltd. The purpose of t ...

On May 7, 2020, amid the epidemic caused by novel coronavirus in Georgia, the Deputy Public Defender and members of the Special Preventive Group paid an ad hoc visit to the temporary accommodation cen ...

The Special Preventive Group monitored quarantine spaces in March-May 2020. 112 respondents were interviewed in detail at 41 quarantine hotels. Most of the respondents said that the law enforcement of ...

On April 30, 2020, as well as on May 1 and 7, in the context of the novel coronavirus epidemic in Georgia, the Public Defender and members of the Special Preventive Group paid an ad hoc visit to Penit ...