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Thursday,
August 16,
2007, #156 (1423)
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Headline: Number of juvenile and women prisoners rocketed since
2000
The number of underage prisoners in Georgia increased three times between
2000 and 2006, Pirveli reports. The number of women prisoners rose by
a similar amount over the same time period.
Headline: NGOs to make Avchala Colony administration accept some
responsibility
Georgian NGOs Young Lawyers Association, Equality Institute and Former
Political Prisoners for Human Rights stressed the problems of Georgia's
penitentiary system at a press conference held to discuss the recent
riot in Avchala Correctional Colony, writes Akhali Taoba.
Representatives
of the NGOs said the government is blaming only the inmates in the prison
riots. They stated their intent to make Avchala Correctional Colony
administration accept some responsibility and announced they will independently
investigate the incident.
Headline: Nestan Kirtadze foresees government's "dismissal"
in autumn
Labor Party member Nestan Kirtadze talked about the Avchala Colony prison
riots at a press conference held on August 14. She stated that the government
has gone from abusing regular inmates to abusing juvenile inmates, Akhali
Taoba reports.
"We must go
from words to action to get rid of this danger to our children and our
citizens. I hope we will manage to dismiss the government in a peaceful
way in autumn," Nestan Kirtadze declared.
Headline:
All Bazrobas to be abolished in Tbilisi
All Bazrobas are to be closed in Tbilisi, according to Akhali Taoba.
Following the closure of the central supermarket, the Eliava, Lilo,
Varketili, Dry Bridge and Dinamo Bazrobas are to suffer the same fate,
the paper suggests.
Pressure groups
have insinuated that high ranking officials stand to make significant
money from the sale of the confiscated premises. Jondi Baghaturia, head
of Georgia Troupe, declared that he would name these officials.
"I am planning
a protest meeting at Dry Bridge Bazroba and I will say who has appropriated
these sites. All Bazroba owners were forced to pay them money. We are
talking about millions," Baghaturia declared.
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