Usupyan Valiko

Definition: The prisoner, an agent of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, tortured his cellmates on the orders of the leadership.
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Previously convicted many times for various crimes. The Ministry of Internal Affairs held him and Yu.G. Tsirekidze for years. in pretrial detention centers, were not sent to the camp, and investigators used them in their work, in particular, to extract testimony from prisoners placed in special building No. 2. In Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in Tbilisi there is a special building No. 2. In April 1975, the People's Court of the Kirov District of Tbilisi considered case No. 2254 on charges of prisoners Yu.G. Tsirekidze. and Valiko Usupyan that on October 24, 1973 they fatally beat prisoner N.U. Ismailov, as a result of which Ismailov died on October 27, 1973. For three days after the beating, no help was provided to Ismailov. The defendants were charged under Article 110, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the GSSR (“Intentional grievous bodily harm”) and under Article 129, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the GSSR (“Left in danger”). The trial took place in the club of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 in Tbilisi.
The defendants Tsirekidze and Usupyan were sentenced to 6 years of strict regime.
Info:
Доп. инф. с сайта газеты "Коммерсантъ"
Доп. инф. с сайта "Хроники текущих событий" ВЫПУСК 36, 31 мая 1975 г.

Documents (4)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гамсахурдия Звиад Константинович
9. Letter from Gamsakhurdia Z.K. dated July 1976 addressed to Valery Nikolaevich (Chalidze?) with a request to publish information about his authorship of the book “On Torture in Georgia.”
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гамсахурдия Звиад Константинович
13. Message from “Chronicles of Current Events” in the “Letters to the Chronicle” section with the text of an appeal from Z.K. Gamsakhurdia. dated August 1976 with a request to publish information about his authorship of the book “On Torture in Georgia” (HTS-43 dated December 31, 1976).
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гамсахурдия Звиад Константинович
90. Fragment of the book by Alekseeva L.M. “History of dissent in the USSR”, 1984, pp. 100-107, about demonstrations in Georgia for the preservation of the status of the state language by the Georgian language, about the violation of human rights in Georgia and about the human rights and educational activities of Gamsakhurdia Z.K.
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.