Daily Archives: December 23, 2012

Phone outage after earthquake in Georgia

By | December 23rd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — There was an earthquake in Georgia on Sunday, causing minor damage in parts of the country. According to the national seismic monitoring center, the earthquake struck at 17:31 local time and had a magnitude of 5.7. The epicenter was 46 km […]

Saakashvili addresses party, delegates return to parliament

By | December 23rd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — The National Movement party of President Mikheil Saakashvili will return to parliament on Monday. This became clear at a party conference Sunday. The president addressed his party’s activists and tried to fire them up as they are […]

‘Justice Minister arranged fake torture video to defuse scandal’

By | December 23rd, 2012|Categories: News, Prisoner abuse|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into one of the prison torture videos that shook the country two weeks before the 2012 parliamentary election. The first of six videos was published in the morning of September 18, […]

Six released on bail in corruption ring case

By | December 23rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Six suspects in a corruption case involving a one million dollar bribe, a dummy company and three power stations were Saturday released on bail. The two most high profile names among the suspected conspirators are Nika Gvaramia, former education […]