Prosecutor’s office releases video showing torture of prisoner by former UNM official Kardava
Mukhadze (L) and Kardava (R) demanded from the inmate the ‘recognition of participation in non-existent terrorist acts’, but the inmate refused to do so, after which the former officials showed him a sexual assault of another prisoner and threatened him with rape, the Prosecutor’s Office reports. Photo: Netgazeti.ge.
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The Georgian Chief Prosecutor's Office released a video earlier today which shows the torture of a prisoner in 2011 by former prison officials, including the former head of Georgia’s military police under the United National Movement (UNM) government, Megis Kardava, who is currently serving out a sentence.
Kardava was extradited from Ukraine to Georgia and arrested on September 17 after 10 years of being on the run.
The Prosecutor’s Office reports that several video recordings were seized from Kardava’s apartment in Ukraine, stating that they requested it from the country.
Megis Kardava was convicted in five criminal cases, while six other criminal charges are still pending in Tbilisi City Court. Kardava considers himself a political prisoner and refuses to participate in the questioning.
Former Head of prison No. 8, Aleksandre Mukhadze, who currently is on the run, has been charged with torturing the prisoner in 2011 to obtain false testimony.
Kardava and Mukhadze demanded from the inmate the ‘recognition of participation in non-existent terrorist acts’, but the inmate refused to do so, after which the former officials showed him a sexual assault of another prisoner and threatened him with rape, the Prosecutor’s Office reports.
Magis Kardava put a pistol to the prisoner's head and imitated shooting for psychological impact,” the body says.
Eventually, the prisoner was forced to sign ‘a false confession’ after which ‘due to numerous acts of torture, he attempted suicide.’
The inmate was released in 2013 after the change of government in 2012.
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Former head of Georgia’s military police under the United National Movement (UNM) government Megis Kardava has been extradited from Ukraine to Georgia earlier today. Kardava is charged with abuse of authority, torture, sexual abuse and illegal imprisonment and has been wanted by Georgian law enforcers since 2013 for 11 criminal cases.
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