Daily Archives: February 29, 2016

Christians and Muslims in Adigeni exchange insults in cemetery row

By | February 29th, 2016|Categories: Minorities|Tags: , |

(Samkhretis Karibche.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Disagreement over a cemetery led to exchange of insults between Muslims and Christians in a village in southern Georgia on Monday. Samkhretis Karibche, a local online newspaper, reported that the locals verbally insulted each other. […]

Court in Georgia to hear case of man who married 15 year old girl

By | February 29th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The regional Court in Sighnaghi in eastern Georgia is considering the case of a 25 year old man who married a 15 year old girl who is pregnant. A few weeks ago, the couple showed up at a talk show on Imedi TV called the Gia Jajanidze Show. The man told of how he and the girl found […]

Two Georgians who avoided hanging in Malaysia returned home

By | February 29th, 2016|Categories: In brief|Tags: , , |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Georgian citizens who barely avoided being hanged in Malaysia for drug-related crimes returned to Georgia on Sunday. Babutsa Gordadze, who was arrested in Malaysia along with Darejan Kokhtashvili, was convicted of  illegally […]

Georgia’s by-election last October to be investigated for fraud

By | February 29th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor General’s Office in Georgia has launched an investigation two weeks after allegations were put forth by a member of parliament about election fraud in last year’s by-election in Sagarejo in eastern Georgia. Gogi Topadze, leader […]

Hundreds rally against Ivanishvili’s ‘Panorama Tbilisi’ project

By | February 29th, 2016|Categories: News|

(DFWatch) TBILISI, DFWatch–Activists demand putting halt a large construction project amidst environmental, urban, social, and conflict-of-interest controversies. Up to 400 activists gathered on Tbilisi’s Freedom Square on 27 February in order to protest against the construction […]

Tbilisi’s Azerbaijani activists call for recognition of the ‘Khojaly Genocide’

By | February 29th, 2016|Categories: Minorities|

(DF Watch) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Azerbaijani activists marked the anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy and called for its recognition as a genocide. On 25 February, a conference on the Khojaly (Xocalı) genocide was held in Tbilisi. The event was organised […]