Mikheil Saakashvili to file lawsuit against Minister of Justice and Penitentiary Service for disclosure of footage
By Liza Mchedlidze
Friday, December 16, 2022
According to the lawyer of Mikheil Saakashvili, Shalva Khachapuridze, he will file a lawsuit against the Minister of Justice and the Penitentiary Service due to the disclosure of Mikheil Saakashvili's footage by the Special Penitentiary Service.
Shalva Khachapuridze said that Mikheil Saakashvili's human rights were violated and the public opinion was put under pressure by the distribution of these footage.
"They have the right to make the footage public only with the permission of the person. They had to come to the "Vivamed" clinic, together with the administration of the "Vivamed" clinic, they had to go to Mikheil Saakashvili and take permission from him directly. Such a thing did not happen. Accordingly, it was a gross violation of the law, which is considered to some extent as an administrative act and to some extent as a criminal act.
In this particular case, it is a criminal act. That's why we appealed to both the personal data inspector and the investigative service to start an investigation, if I'm not mistaken, it was already the third case of Saakashvili's footage being made public without his permission.
A complaint will be filed against the Minister of Justice, the Penitentiary Service, to start an investigation, to find out what happened, why Saakashvili was not transferred at the first trial, and secondly, how these shots came into the hands of the Minister of Justice.
In all cases, it had to go through the hands of the Penitentiary Service, then the Penitentiary Service had to deliver it to the head of any department of the Minister of Justice, the head of the department had to deliver it to the deputy, the deputy had to deliver it to the Minister of Justice. The whole chain is involved in all this.
The prisoner's and human rights were violated by this action. In addition, public opinion was put under pressure and distorted opinion was created," Khachapuridze said.
According to the lawyer, investigation must be launched regarding this matter:
"Investigation should be launched and it should be found out who was involved in this tragedy that we saw yesterday. This neo-Communism and neo-Bolshevism must end in this country once and for all. The case is in the court and the court should be given the opportunity to consider it without any political pressure and Bolshevik methods," the lawyer noted.
