The Ministry of Justice of Georgia shared the request of the Georgian Public Ombudsman for a full inspection on the elimination of the practice of stripping prisoners.
This information was shared by the Public Defender of Georgia on its official Facebook page on June 13, 2025, Friday. According to the information shared, it was noted that on February 5, 2025, the Georgian Public Ombudsman addressed the Constitutional Court of Georgia with a constitutional lawsuit, in which the rules of the penitentiary institutions No2, No3, No6, No8, No11, No14, No15, No16, No17, and No18 which consider the total nakedness of the prisoner’s body during his full examination.
Specifically, by the controversial norms, the accused/convicted was obliged to completely strip or strip the appropriate parts of the body after the authority was instructed.
It is meaningful that in parliamentary reports, the Georgian Public Ombudsman has repeatedly appealed to the Minister of Justice of Georgia to make amendments to the relevant duties of the prison institutions, to ensure that the practice of requiring simultaneous stripping of different parts of the prisoner’s body during a complete examination. Unfortunately, the recommendations of the Public Ombudsman have not yet been fulfilled.
After filing a constitutional lawsuit, by a letter dated June 11, 2025, the Ministry of Justice of Georgia informed the Constitutional Court that by the orders of June 10, 2025, of the Minister of Justice of Georgia, amendments were made to the documents appealed by constitutional lawsuit No. 1851 and by the current procedure eliminated the issues that were questionable by the plaintiff.
The Georgian Public Ombudsman welcomes the decision of the Minister of Justice, which shared the demand of the Public Ombudder, for a complete examination of the abolition of the practice of stripping the body of a prisoner. Accordingly, the Public Ombudsman appeals to the Constitutional Court to stop the production of cases.
