"We do not torture anyone and we are focused on protecting Saakashvili's rights"

"We are not torturing anyone and we are focused on protecting Saakashvili's rights" - Minister of Justice Rati Bregadze speaks about this at a special briefing and says that the government is "doing its best" in this direction.

We are talking only about the conclusions, and the refusal or approval is given by the court, not by the special penitentiary service. We must not forget what the special penitentiary service is accused of. We are talking about the fact that the special penitentiary service and its employees allegedly tortured this person. This is what experts are talking about. I mean, of course, Center "Empathy" experts.

These people say that the convict Saakashvili was tortured by someone and as a result of the torture he developed such diseases that exist according to their conclusions. I mean, in this case, what the center "Empathy", claims, which, of course, is false, I will say this, we do not torture anyone, and we are focused from the beginning to the end on the fact that the rights of the convicted Saakashvili, as well as any other convicted or accused, should be fully protected. In accordance with all international standards, and we, of course, do our best to ensure, in this case the state, that his right to health is fully protected.

If he needs treatment, he is in the hospital, and when someone dares to tell us, accuses us of such disparity, that it is as if the state is torturing someone, and they write this in the report, it is natural that we will react to this, and here we must also tell the public that the expert who writes that As if someone was tortured, he does not have the right to do so according to Georgian legislation," says Bregadze.