Daily Archives: October 5, 2012

Prisoner found dead, suspected suicide

By | October 5th, 2012|Categories: News, Prisoner abuse|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s prison ministry informs that a suicide might have taken place at No 18 prison hospital. The body of a prisoner was found in the bathroom of the prison hospital September 5. The cause of death was hanging. The prisoner had been placed in the […]

Counting completed, many complaints

By | October 5th, 2012|Categories: Elections, Elections '12-'13, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Four days after the election, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said the counting of votes had been completed and announced the final results. After collating votes from 3 766 district, preliminary results show the Georgian Dream coalition received […]

Negotiations between Saakashvili’s and Ivanishvili’s people

By | October 5th, 2012|Categories: News, Politics|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — The winner of the aryparliament election, Georgian Dream, will from October 8 send representatives to each state body to start a  ‘peaceful transfer of government’ until a new government is formed. This was one of the major decisions made at a meeting between […]

Clinton calls Ivanishvili and Saakashvili

By | October 5th, 2012|Categories: News, Politics|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — US Secretary of State has had a phone conversation with President Mikheil Saakashvili and Bidzina Ivanishvili, who leads a coalition that won the parliamentary election. Both the president’s and the Georgian Dream’s press offices separately told […]

Georgian colonel arrested

By | October 5th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — A colonel in Georgia’s armed forces who recently chaired Georgian peace divisions in Afghanistan has been arrested. His arrest was announced 45 days after it happened, 15 days earlier than his punishment was to end. Opposition channel TV9 reported […]

Video shows armed attack on voting precinct

By | October 5th, 2012|Categories: Elections, Elections '12-'13, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — A video was publishedThursday showing a person wearing a mask breaking into one of the election precincts in Khashuri, a small town in eastern Georgia. On election day Monday, there were reports about special units breaking into several precincts […]

Saakashvili’s outgoing government selects negotiators

By | October 5th, 2012|Categories: News, Politics|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — The government of President Mikheil Saakashvili has picked the Parliament Speaker, Tbilisi Mayor, Secretary of the Security Council and a member of parliament to represent it in negotiations with the Georgian Dream coalition. Soon after Election Day, […]