Kardava V.T.

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In June 1973, the visiting session of the Supreme Court of the GSSR considered the case on charges of Kardav of giving a bribe and Tsulai of taking a bribe. Both were convicted of bribery under Article 189 of the Criminal Code of the Georgian SSR and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Only in the camp was Tsulaya able to obtain a medical examination and the drawing up of an act on the nature of the burns on his arm: the judge refused him this. Act No. 2/675 dated 04.10.1973 and the complaint were sent to the Prosecutor's Office of the GSSR. In the complaint, Tsulaya wrote that in April-May 1973 he was in cell No. 40 of the second building of the Detention Facility No. 1 of Tbilisi, where he was beaten and that his testimony and the testimony of his accomplice Kardava were obtained during the preliminary investigation with the help of torture carried out in special cells of the Detention Facility by special prisoners. The complaint reported facts of torture applied to other prisoners.
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Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гамсахурдия Звиад Константинович
114. Message “The day jail torturer realed all” dated 02.11.1975 with the text of an article by Shawcross W. and P. Raddway from the Sunday Times newspaper about the political system in Georgia after the death of Stalin and about torture applied to prisoners, in English.
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Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich, Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich, Gabunia Mikhail, Gamsakhurdia Zviad Konstantinovich, Gersania T.V., Inauri Alexey Nikolaevich, Ismailov (Ismailov) N. U., Kardava V.T., Mamulov S., Medvedev Roy Alexandrovich, Mzhavanadze Vasily Pavlovich, Reddaway (Reddaway or Reddaway) Peter Bryan, Sakharov Andrey Dmitrievich, Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich, Skhirtladze, Usupyan Valiko, Frolov, Tsirekidze Yury Grigorievich, Tsulaya Karlo Kalistratovich, Shevardnadze Eduard Amvrosievich, Shawcross William
1975