Interior Ministry and OSCE Office for Human Rights sign deal to retrain investigators
The program will be developed through close cooperation with ODIHR. Photo: Georgian Interior Ministry
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The Georgian Interior Ministry and OSCE Human Rights Office (ODIHR) have signed a deal to create a training programme for crime investigators that deal with cases involving discrimination.
The deal was signed within the framework of an ongoing systemic update to provide an efficient response to crimes motivated by hatred.
The special training programme will be developed through close cooperation with the OSCE Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Office.
The training programme will begin in April and help the ministry ensure a rapid response and effective investigation of hatred-motivated crimes.
Monitoring of the investigation of crimes against life and health will be added to the obligations of the department starting from the year, Deputy Interior Minister Natia Mezvrishvili stated today.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has reported today that they have sent a bill which provides tougher punishment for sexual crimes against minors to the government for confirmation.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained five who were involved in a so-called ‘meeting of criminal bosses’.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has stated that 26 people in total have been charged with election-related offences, which took place on the 28 November presidential election day and afterwards.
The Georgian Interior Ministry says that it has met nearly all the recommendations made by the Georgian Public Defender to them in 2018.
The Georgian Interior Ministry will open a special division in Tbilisi in April 2020 which will be focused only on minors’ issues, head of the prime minister’s office Natia Mezvrishvili has stated. Mezvrishvili, who previously served as deputy interior minister, said that investigators specialised in minors’ issues will work in the division.She said that the work is underway with the Health Ministry to overcome the challenges related to social workers.
A mural portrait of Vitali Safarov, the Jewish-Georgian human rights defender and activist killed in Tbilisi in 2018, now adorns a facade of the Hague University of Applied Sciences alongside faces of student climate movement figure Greta Thunberg and assassinated Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres.