Daily Archives: December 29, 2012

Georgia charges missing ex justice minister with torture

By | December 29th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office has officially charged a former Justice Minister in absentia for abuse of power and being responsible for torturing prisoners. Zurab Adeishvili, the former Justice Minister in Saakashvili’s government who […]

$2 mill of emergency aid for 2008 war still stowed away

By | December 29th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TV sets were among the aid found. The items were meant for refugees in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. (Photo published by the ministry.) TBILISI, DFWatch — The Ministry of Refugees and Internally Displaced People has discovered five unregistered warehouses, where there were kept humanitarian aid which should have been distributed to refugees in 2008 and 2009. The ministry on Friday published photos […]

Local government after the parliamentary elections

By | December 29th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

The victory of the opposition in the October 1, 2012 parliamentary election created an unusual political situation for Georgia: the majority in parliament and the local governments are controlled by two different political forces, the ruling and the opposition party. […]

Georgian parliament overturns Saakashvili’s veto

By | December 29th, 2012|Categories: Elections '12-'13, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian parliament overrode President Mikheil Saakashvili’s veto against a law about mass amnesty. 91 MPs voted against Saakashvili’s new version of the law, while 4 supported it. Now, the Georgian Dream coalition’s law, which was passed […]