Nino Datashvili: I have no mental diagnosis, but you have brought the Soviet nightmare to life for people and strengthened the stigma - if they saw my mental instability, why didn't they see that I needed surgery?
"I don't have any mental diagnosis, but you've brought the Soviet nightmare back to life for people and reinforced the stigma," activist Nino Datashvili, who was arrested on charges of assaulting a bailiff, said at the trial.
She spoke in detail about her case.
“When they brought me the ruling on the forced psychiatric examination, it is a shameful page in the history of independent Georgia for me. I was not even allowed to participate in the court, this is repression against us, they conducted a campaign on lawyers.
We sent a letter to the prosecutor's office. Neurosurgeons do not write a psychiatric diagnosis. I do not have any psychiatric diagnosis, but you have brought back the Soviet nightmare to people and strengthened the stigma. As a civic education teacher, I say - many do not have access to psychiatric treatment...
I have referred many teenagers and children to a psychiatrist. I have no problems with a psychiatrist. Thanks to my friends who spoke about this in the media.
In addition, my lawyers presented documentation in a way that we didn't want to disseminate it, but the prosecutor's office made my personal information public and subject to discussion. I am ot asking for any concessions based on my health condition.
This pressure they put on me by ordering a forced examination was probably aimed at intimidating me, they probably thought that I would keep quiet and that it would become a precedent for others to do the same. That's why we spoke out. If we don't have justice and law in our country, there is a European court, we will wait for justice.
I filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office. If they saw my mental instability, why didn’t they see that I needed surgery? I have been requesting an MRI scan since the day I entered prison, because I am in unbearable pain. I have sent numerous letters to the General Inspectorate, the Prosecutor General’s Office - I am asking them to question me,” Datashvili said.
For information, Nino Datashvili was arrested on June 20 in Tbilisi City Court for the incident that occurred on June 9. She was charged under Part 3 of Article 353 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which refers to assault on a public servant during the performance of his official duties.
The aforementioned crime is punished by a fine or imprisonment for a term of 4 to 7 years.
