Convicts in Georgia sewed up their mouths as a sign of protest

Fifteen convicts in penal colony No 12 in the settlement of Ksani, Central Georgia, sewed up their mouths as a sign of protest demanding to replace the administration of the penal facility.

For already the second day the convicts have been holding different actions against the administration of the colony, human rights activist Georgy Lordkipanidze who visited it, reported.

“Up to 15 convicts sewed up their mouths as a sign of protest. Some of the convicts state that local administration threatens them with reprisal and bringing riot squad into the territory of the colony”, “Interfax” quotes Lordkipanidze.

According to him, it is still difficult to say how feasible these threats are. The personnel of the colony has not taken unlawful measures against the convicts.

During the whole night an action of the protesters’ relatives was going on near the colony, “Georgia Online” reports. The relatives demanded meetings with the convicts. The confrontation resulted in beating up a military guard who was taken to hospital with traumas.

The relatives stayed to spend the night near Ksan colony. Sozar Subari, Minister of Execution of a punishments, probation and legal aid, called for the participants of the action to calmness and warned them that the actions should not be held closer than in 20 meters distance from the fence of the colony, “Novosti-Georgia” reports.