Paata Salia congratulated female inmates of Women’s Penitentiary No. 5 on Mother’s Day and attended a concert organized with their participation.

The event was also attended by Deputy Ministers of Justice Lana Morgoshia and Tamar Zodelava, Head of the Special Penitentiary Service Giorgi Pataridze, First Lady of Georgia Tamar Bagrationi, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Nino Tsilosani, Member of Parliament Eka Chichinadze, and other invited guests.

During the visit, the Minister of Justice and the Head of the Special Penitentiary Service presented the newly renovated sewing workshop, which is scheduled to open in the near future. Guests were also introduced to the facility’s beauty salon, fitness center, and library, all of which operate to support the resocialization and rehabilitation of inmates.

At the conclusion of the event, the inmates presented the guests with handmade gifts they had crafted themselves.

Georgian Deputy Minister of Justice Giorgi Dgebuadze met with the Regional Director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for Europe and Central Asia, Arthur Erken, to discuss current developments and future priorities in the field of migration.

During the meeting, it was emphasized that effective migration management is not only an integral part of Georgia’s domestic policy, but also one of the key priorities within the country’s European integration agenda. The parties underlined the importance of maintaining a balanced approach that ensures both the protection of human rights and the safeguarding of state security interests in migration governance and efforts to combat trafficking in human beings.

The Georgian side expressed its gratitude to the IOM Regional Director for the strong and productive cooperation and conveyed its hope that the partnership will continue to deepen in the future.

The meeting was attended by the Head of the Department of International Relations and Legal Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice, Ketevan Sarajishvili; the Head of the State Services Development Agency, Rusudan Kokhodze; the Head of the Secretariat of the Governmental Commission on Migration Issues, Temur Goginov; as well as the Head of the IOM Mission in Georgia, Lars Johan Lønbak, and IOM Programme Development and Support Officer, Gentsi Pietri.