Friday, December 5, 2025

Freedom to peaceful assembly and freedom of movement

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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

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Five thousand came to Oasis Music Festival

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Five thousand tickets were sold for Saturday at Oasis Festival in Mtskheta, Georgia. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Oasis Music Festival was held this weekend in Mtskheta, not far from the capital, with well-known bands like WhoMadeWho, Mumiy Troll and Motorama.

The festival lasted two days and was held at Theatron, an area between the old castle and the River

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The State’s Role in the May 17 Incident

tamta mikeladze
Tamta Mikeladze is strategic litigations lawyer at Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association.

The May 17 incident and its subsequent developments should be discussed in two paradigms: the legal and the socio-cultural. The legal aspect relates to the state, whereas the socio-cultural is linked to society, in particular the existing social and cultural structures.

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NYT picks on an easy target

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Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia.

On June 5th, the New York Times was running an article entitled “Taliban Attack Kills 7 Georgian Soldiers in Afghanistan.”

Despite the title, the article said very little about the circumstances surrounding this tragic event; it focused mostly on an analysis

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Foreign Policy or a Battle Cry?

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Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia.

What happened in October?

The October 2012 parliamentary election gave Georgia a chance for normal development. Needless to say, a government assuming power through violence cannot be democratic. Thus, defeating the National Movement through the ballot box instead of

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