18:27, 4 December 2012

Twelve heavily sick inmates of Ksani Colony in Georgia go on hunger strike

Today, twelve prisoners of the Ksani Colony sick with AIDS and tuberculosis went on hunger strike, said Sozar Subari, Minister for Punishment Enforcement of Georgia.

The have addressed authorities of Georgia with a demand of their immediate release.

"12 prisoners refuse to take medication and demand release. Their main diseases are AIDS and tuberculosis. These diseases assume no right of early release from custody," the "Tbilisi Week" quotes Mr Subari as saying.

In the near future, a list of heavily sick prisoners, planned to release from prisons, will be sent to President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, Sozar Subari has added. The list contains the names of more than 120 inmates, the "Georgia-Online" reports.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" reported that on November 5, some disturbances burst out in Colony No. 15 located in the village of Ksani in central Georgia. Some of them sewed up their mouths demanding to change the top managers of their colony.

After the start of unrest, the colony director Nukri Khukhua wrote a resignation report; however, on November 6 he stated that he changed his mind.