Daily Archives: September 28, 2012

A third hunger strike launched in Georgia

By | September 28th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – According to Georgia’s public defender, yet another hunger strike has been launched, this time at Prison No 19, for prisoners suffering of tuberculosis. About 30 prisoners in the prison went on hunger strike on September 25. Their demand is to […]

Ivanishvili’s guard missing, relatives say

By | September 28th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – A former bodyguard for the Georgian opposition leader has been reported missing by his relatives, after a video was uploaded to Youtube yesterday, in which he says that Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili personally instructed him to make […]

Court rejects appeal against photo ban

By | September 28th, 2012|Categories: Elections, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – A court in Georgia has ruled that the Central Election Commission’s decision to establish tight regulations for media on Election Day are legal. The rules in practice make it impossible to take photos and videos at election precincts. Under the current […]

No more violence

By | September 28th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: , |

As a representative of Switzerland I am looking forward to be allowed to observe democratic parliamentary elections in Georgia. Both countries, Georgia and Switzerland, are small, very dynamic, and extremely lovely countries. Both together should always and under any […]

Second group of prisoners go on hunger strike

By | September 28th, 2012|Categories: News, Prisoner abuse|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Thirteen prisoners from one of Georgia’s prisons went on hunger strike for five days until the election as way of showing their protest against torture and mistreatment of prisoners. Representatives of the public defender September 26 visited […]