Daily Archives: March 20, 2012

Saakashvili’s paramilitaries are clan based – claim

By | March 20th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition politician in Georgia Tuesday described in more detail what he knows about an alleged paramilitary force recently established by President Saakashvili in the west of the country. But he said documents about the illegal armed units will not […]

Georgian border police arrests Russian cargo ship

By | March 20th, 2012|Categories: News|

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian border police Monday detained a Russian cargo ship carrying coal across the Black Sea from Ukraine to Turkey. The Pur-Navolok is now in arrest in the Georgian port Batumi with its Russian crew of ten. Preliminary information indicates that […]

Georgian opposition details Saakashvili’s alleged paramilitaries

By | March 20th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition candidate Tuesday presented details about an alleged secret paramilitary organization he claims was recently organized by President Mikheil Saakashvili in western Georgia. Leader of the Free Democrats Irakli Alasania had called the press […]

Georgia in talks to spare 2 from execution in Malaysia

By | March 20th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia is to send a task group to Malaysia to study the situation regarding two Georgians sentenced to death for drug related crimes. Babutsa Gordadze (26) and Darejan Kokhtashvili (37) were arrested in Malaysia in October 2010, accused of trafficking […]

Georgians struggling to get through European visa maze

By | March 20th, 2012|Categories: Investigative reports, Society|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Vakhtang Nadibaidze (53) stands in line in front of the Polish embassy, waiting for the answer to his visa application. Many Georgians have been in his place, facing the labyrinth it is to get a visa at the European embassies here. He remembers how about […]

Georgian Administrative Detention Undermines Human Rights

By | March 20th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

The regulation of administrative offenses and administrative detention in particular are of grave concern to local and international human rights organizations, which has been clearly demonstrated several times, inter alia, by providing observations on the issue and expressing […]