Minor injured in suicide attempt in critical condition
The civic movement Sirtskhvilia (Shame) has made inscriptions in Tbilisi, in protest of the incident, supporting the minor.
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A 15-year-old minor who may have been led to a suicide attempt by psychological pressure at Tbilisi Didube-Chugureti police station last week, is in critical condition after surgery and doctors have him on assisted respiration, announced Edisher Magalashvili, a neurosurgeon at M. Iashvili Childrens Central Hospital.
Doctors from Israel are also involved in the treatment process of the minor.
The patients was in a critical condition while entering the clinic. Yesterday there was an episode of worsening condition… Currently the patient is in the intensive care unit. It is not easy to make predictions in this case as the child’s health condition is critical”, said Edisher Magalashvili, a neurosurgeon at M. Iashvili Children's Central Hospital.
The family and lawyer of the minor say that he suffered psychological pressure from law enforcers who wanted him to admit to a crime.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has dismissed allegations by the family and lawyer of the minor saying that the child was interrogated twice “in the presence of his parents” at Didube-Chugureti police station on December 10 and 11 for including damage to the property of Mtsvane School in Tbilisi and writing vulgar phrases on the walls of the school.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that the minor spent only “3-4 minutes alone” with one of the police officers before the beginning of the interrogation as the minor “had a conflict with his mother and the police officer tried to calm the situation”.
The ministry says that they are actively cooperating with the State Inspector’s Office, investigating alleged offences committed by law enforcement.
Later the ministry reported that the Deputy Chief of DiDube-Chugureti District Police Department Division and the investigator of the same department „have been suspended by their authority at their own initiative until the investigation is complete”.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria says that less people addressed her office for help in 2018 regarding possible abuse by law enforcers.
A new, independent agency, the State Inspector’s Office, which replaced the Personal Data Protection Inspector’s Office back in July 2019, will begin its function to investigate possible crimes committed by law enforcers and state officials starting November 1.An event was held earlier today to mark the upcoming launch of the work of the agency and was attended by top Georgian officials.
The Georgian parliament has approved Londa Toloraia, the former head of Human Rights Department of the Interior Ministry, as the country’s first state inspector to investigate possible crimes committed by law enforcers.
The government of Georgia has allowed for the creation of the State Inspector’s Service that will study alleged offences committed by law enforcers, a decision that has long been requested by the civil sector and the opposition.
A 15-year-old minor who may have been led to a suicide attempt by psychological pressure at Tbilisi Didube-Chugureti police station over a week ago, has died at M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital today.
The Georgian police have detained two individuals born in 2004 and 2005 for murdering a 15-year-old boy in Sanzona district of Tbilisi. The Interior Ministry has announced today that one of the detainees stabbed the boy with a knife and escaped. His accomplice, who witnessed the crime, also fled without informing the police.