A 15-year-old Luka Siradze has died Tuesday, December 17, 2019 in hospital in Tbilisi after attempting suicide a week ago, according to report found on Oc-Media.
Luka Siradze reportedly committed suicide hours after being interrogated by police; two officers have so far been suspended and an investigation is underway, the report says.
The teenager’s story shook Tbilisi after local rights group the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) claimed the boy attempted suicide in Tbilisi’s Dighomi District on 11 December after being subjected to ‘psychological abuse’ by police.
Siradze passed away in Tbilisi’s Iashvili Children’s Hospital on Tuesday evening.
GYLA cited his mother as saying that officers from the Didube-Chughureti Police Station in Tbilisi cursed at the boy, threatened him with prison, and threatened to cause ‘problems’ for his older brother if he did not confess.
Siradze’s mother reportedly said her son was kept for 5–6 hours at the station until he signed a confession admitting that he vandalised the exclusive Mtsvane (green) School in Tbilisi.
