Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Anti-immigration activists plan rally in Tbilisi Friday evening

Anti-immigration activist Sandro Bregadze
The rally is being organized by Sandro Bregadze.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Nationalists in Georgia plan an anti-immigration rally in the center of Tbilisi Friday evening.

The rally, which will take place on Aghmashenebeli Avenue at 8pm, will take aim at illegal immigration, especially from Muslim countries.

One of their demands is to close down

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Constitutional Court overturns ban on gay men donating blood – again

Constitutional CourtTBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Constitutional Court has overturned a ban on donation of blood by men who have had sex with other men.

The lawsuit to lift the ban was filed by LGBT rights activists Gocha Gabodze and Levan Berianidze.

The ban on donating blood for ‘a man who has had a sexual

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Separatists deny leader injured in car crash visiting other breakaway region

Raul Khajimba (left) and Anatoly Bibilov
The de facto presidents of Georgia’s two breakaway territories: Raul Khajimba (Abkhazia) (left) and Anatoly Bibilov (South Ossetia). (Photo published by the office of Abkhazia’s de facto president.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The separatists in one of Georgia’s two breakaway regions denied a report in Russian media that their leader was injured in a car crash Saturday while visiting another separatist region.

Anatoly Bibilov, the de facto president of the tiny enclave South Ossetia,

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Indian citizen refused entry to Georgia twice without being given a reason

TBILISI, DFWatch–An Indian businessman was refused entry to Georgia for the second time on Wednesday, after a similar incident two days earlier.

A lawyer for Akbar Khan Qureshi said the young Indian entrepreneur again was turned away in the border control at Tbilisi airport

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CoE official dismayed over Georgia's constitution 'crisis'

Gianni Buquicchio. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Council of Europe official is in despair over the way Georgian leaders have handled the drafting of a new constitution, calling the debacle a ‘crisis’.

“I’m disappointed and become more and more disappointed for every hour,” head of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio

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