Zurab Adeishvili, former Justice Minister and David Chakua, former Chairman of the Penitentiary Department, were found guilty in connection with the so-called prison footage case.

Adeishvili was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison, fined GEL 5,000 and deprived of the right to hold public office for 2 years and 3 months. Chakua was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months of imprisonment, fined 5,000 GEL and deprived of the right to hold a public position in the civil service for 2 years and 3 months.

“On September 17, 2012, Z.A. met with the First Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Georgia D.C and Chairman of the Penitentiary Department D.Ch. regarding the mentioned issues. It was decided at the meeting to order the staff of the №8 penitentiary institution to humiliate, beat and verbally abuse prisoners in the same institution and to record a video of the above. It was also decided to falsify evidence in the criminal case in such a way to blame the Georgian Dream political union of the violence committed against the prisoners.

Prison officer L.F. was ordered to spread false information publicly, as if representatives of the opposition party had ordered the torture of prisoners in prison in exchange for a certain amount of money.

On September 18, 2012, prison staff – L.F., along with B.F and L.F, stripped prisoners of their clothes in cell № 37 of the №8 facility and verbally and physically abused them.

That same morning, through the PR Department of the MIA, L.F. provided the public with false information that prisoners had been beaten and abused under the order of members of the Georgian Dream political union”, - reads the statement of the Prosecution Office.