The SJC warns about the "normalized" police brutality, request investigations and responsibilities - Civil Georgia

The Center for Social Justice (SJC), a local guardian guardian, said that “excessive use of force by police” and “brutal reprisals” against protesters have become a “normalized practice” in recent protests. The SJC requests both the Special Investigation Service (SIS) and the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the police brutality cases, with reference to the potential responsibility of the senior officers, including Zviad Kharazishvili. The organization also asked the Ministry of Interior to issue a clear statement containing the reasons for the demonstrators and for the immediate release of those currently detained.

In the statement issue Following the protest on February 2 near the Tbilisi Mall, SJC said that the violent actions taken by the police were not aimed at complying with the law, but rather to punish and respond against the citizens. The guardian has raised concerns about what describes as “particularly alarming” incidents in which the police targeted citizens based on their political membership or other factors. The guard warns that such actions favors a “dangerous environment for hate crime” and “violates the principles of police neutrality”.

A large number of police were dislocated in the area that is departing from both sides of the highway on February 2. Most of the police wore masks, and their identities could not be confirmed. SCJ stressed that masked officers, who cannot even be identified, “are a serious violation of human rights standards” and have noted that they enjoy “total impunity”.

Watchdog has quoted several films that have gone viral on social networks and in the media, showing the brutality of the police against peaceful protesters, including the beating of the prisoners during the detention and after, in the police trades and, in particular, video images of the head of the Department of Special tasks, Zviad Kharazishvili (“Khareba”), he himself beating a protester.

The statement criticized the recent criminalization of the Government of road blockages, a movement that SJC says it undermines the basic principles of the rule of law. Watchdog argues that the prohibition of the blankets of the Government of road blockages, which does not take into account the number of participants in a rally or specific circumstances of the protests, violates both the Constitution of Georgia and the European Convention on Human Rights.

The SJC mentioned that not a single police officer was not punished or investigated for their role in the violent suppression of protests on November 28.

31 people were arrested at the protest on February 2, many of them were beaten by the police. Four people were It seems that Hospitalized with confusion. Public defender Levan Ioseliani expressed His concern, stating: “The facts of an inappropriate treatment and the excessive use of force by the police against citizens, journalists and politicians, who are reflected in publicly circulated video, are deeply disturbing.”

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