Daily Archives: March 11, 2013

Foreign investments to Georgia drops

By | March 11th, 2013|Categories: Economy, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Direct foreign investments in Georgia dropped by 47 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to the previous year, according to a new report by National Statistics Department, GeoStat. According to preliminary data, the total amount of […]

Doctors on hunger strike after being fired

By | March 11th, 2013|Categories: Society|Tags: |

Zurab Lataria, one of the doctors on hunger strike. (Info9.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Four emergency service doctors have been on hunger strike since March 6. They are protesting against being fired and demand to replace the local management. The doctors claim that the director of the emergency center illegally fired them and that […]

Bacho Akhalaia moved back to scandalous prison

By | March 11th, 2013|Categories: News, Prisoner abuse|Tags: |

Bacho Akhalaia on the day of his detention, November 7, 2012. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Former interior minister and close Saakashvili ally Bacho Akhalaia has been moved from a relatively privileged facility to Prison No 8 in north Tbilisi, notorious for numerous cases of torture and death. Akhalaia, who has been in detention since […]

Constitutional amendments may be modified

By | March 11th, 2013|Categories: Elections '12-'13, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch–A draft law already presented to parliament which will reduce the powers of the president may be amended. According to the draft of constitutional changes, if the president dismisses parliament and government, he won’t have the right to himself […]

Venice Commission’s recommendations on Georgian reforms

By | March 11th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe is finished preparing its first set of recommendations regarding a draft bill for reforming the Georgian justice system. Even though the recommendations have not yet been published, both President […]