Eka Zguladze appointed acting Georgian Interior Minister

Eka Zguladze has been appointed Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, who previously held the post of First Deputy Interior Minister. In a press statement, Zguladze said that the police would be the same transparent and open organization as in recent years, Trend reports.

She underlined that the new Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance, Giorgi Tugushi, will have at his disposal the full staff of the patrol police, who yesterday took control of the situation in Georgia's prisons.

"We will make every effort to ensure the transparency of all government agencies of Georgia, and will not allow ourselves to return to when the police were the executioners of the people, and when I myself was a victim of those police," she said.

Vestnik Kavkaza previously reported that Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaya resigned  on Thursday night, stating that he feels guilty about the situation created in prisons. "I feel responsible and guilty for not being able to change the situation in the penitentiary system and outraged by the violence of the staff that has been broadcast. Unfortunately, among these violent people were individuals whom I brought in to the system and I feel moral responsibility for this, so I asked the president to accept my resignation," Akhalaya's statement reads.