( CNN ) -- Georgia 's interior minster resigned Thursday , two days after videos surfaced purportedly showing guards abusing prisoners . Bacho Akhalaia released a statement on the ministry 's website announcing the move . `` I am deeply horrified with the crime that has been revealed in Gldani N8 prison , '' he said , referring to the facility in Tbilisi , the capital . Akhalaia said that even though he 's no longer in charge of the prison system , some people who were tasked to prevent such acts began their careers under his leadership . Purported prison abuse videos prompt outrage in Georgia . `` Because of that , I feel a moral and political obligation that we were not able to prevent this horrible practice ( the abuse ) . '' Georgia television stations , including TV9 , broadcast the videos Tuesday night . The faces of those being filmed were obscured . One man cries out while he is being raped with a broom handle . Another video shows an inmate being punched . The videos led to arrests inside and outside the Eurasian country , a former Soviet republic . It also stoked outrage . President Mikheil Saakashvili called the abuse `` a horrific affront to human rights and human dignity . '' The U.S. Embassy said it was revolted by the images . The country 's interior ministry on Tuesday blamed certain prison employees for the degrading treatment . It said a prisoner at the facility offered `` substantial reimbursement '' to employees for their actions and the video recordings . Its statement did not elaborate on the prisoner 's motivation . The interior ministry identified that prisoner as Tamaz Tamazashvili , father-in-law of Irlakli Garibashvili , a member of the opposition Georgian Dream party . Are you witnessing protests ? Share your images . Garibashvili said Tamazashvili 's life was in danger and that he was being held `` hostage '' by the president . Tamazashvili had nothing to do with the taped incidents , Garibashvili said . Khatuna Kalmakhelidze , Georgia 's minister of corrections and legal assistance , tendered her resignation Wednesday . CNN 's Nunu Japaridze contributed to this report .
He was ` ` deeply horrified '' by the actions . " N8 ##9 is in Tbilisi , the Georgia capital . Outrage followed release of the videos .