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21.
Concerning Tarek Said (ibid., para. 450), the Government indicated that his allegations
were being investigated, that a rogatory commission had been addressed to the Police
Monitoring Service and that no charges had so far been brought.
Georgia
22.
By letters dated 21 December 1999 and 11 January 2000, the Government sent
information concerning the allegations transmitted by the Special Rapporteur in November 1999.
23.
The Government also informed the Special Rapporteur that 1,654 complaints had been
examined by the Central Apparatus for the Inspection of Staff in 1998 and that 202 police
officers had subsequently been removed from their position. In particular, five were expelled for
exceeding their authority and for physical abuse and four had received prison sentences.
24.
Concerning Aka (Alexander) Sulava (see E/CN.4/2000/9, para. 455), the Government
indicated that he had lodged a complaint against three unknown persons with the Chief
Department of the Police on 1 February 1999. Criminal proceedings were instituted with the
Didube District Department on 7 April 1999. The preliminary investigation was eventually
ended on the grounds that Aka Sulava failed to name the persons he incriminated.
25.
Concerning Josef Topuridze (ibid., para. 456), the Government reported that he had
lodged a complaint with the Procurator of Tbilisi against two officers of the traffic police,
alleging that they had physically abused him. He had complained to a senior official at the
headquarters of the traffic police, by whom he was verbally abused. The case was transferred by
the Ministry of the Interior to the Procuracy of the Isani district, which subsequently declared the
complaint invalid. Criminal proceedings were instituted against the traffic police and against
Josef Topuridze for purposely giving false evidence. The latter has initiated further proceedings
for damages, which are currently ongoing.
26.
Concerning Badri Tsindeliani (ibid., para. 457), the Government indicated that criminal
proceedings had been instituted in the Procuracy General of Georgia on 7 October 1997 which
had led to the finding that he had been physically abused by the inspector of the investigation
department, a police lieutenant and a lieutenant junior. According to the Government, he had
been beaten with a belt and a blunt object on his feet and other parts of his body and had
sustained blows to his face, eyes and ears, as a result of which he had lost consciousness.
Subsequent proceedings instituted in the Signani District Court had found the three police
officers in breach of provisions of the Criminal Code of Georgia. On 3 February 1998, the
Prosecutor General had appealed to the head of the Tsoni Police Department of the Ministry of
Internal Affairs to take measures to eliminate the facilitation of the conditions for crime
conducted by policemen of the same department, inter alia by one officer who had also been on
duty when Badri Tsindeliani was assaulted.
27.
Concerning Gogi Shiukashvili (ibid., para. 458), the Government indicated that his
mother had lodged a complaint with the Prosecutor General on 8 May 1998. On 7 October 1998,
the criminal proceedings were referred to Gldani District Procuracy for further investigations and
from 27 January 1999, criminal proceedings pursuant to article 187, part 3 (excess of authority)