Daily Archives: June 29, 2013

Saakashvili’s party names four presidential candidates

By | June 29th, 2013|Categories: Elections '12-'13, News|Tags: , |

UNM spokesman Giorgi Vashadze. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement on Saturday named four candidates for the party’s primary election to select as candidate for the upcoming presidential election in October. Party spokesman Giorgi Vashadze presented the […]

Locals beat wife of Hajji in Kakheti village

By | June 29th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: , |

Suliko Khozrevanidze. (ICK.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Locals attacked and beat the wife of the Hajji in the village Samtatskharo Friday, only weeks after the religious conflict there seemed to have been solved. Locals had earlier prevented Muslims from conducting Friday prayer for three weeks, but the […]

Freedom to peaceful assembly and freedom of movement

By | June 29th, 2013|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

Nona Kurdovanidze is coordinator of the Project ‘Innovative and Durable Solutions to Displacement‘ at the Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association. I can think of a number of demonstrations over the past few years when the police arrested participants for blocking traffic and violating the public order. However, today, I would like to draw your attention to the latest incident of May 1, 2013 in which the question […]