Thursday, September 3, 2026

Georgian parliament overturns president's veto of judicial bill

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(Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Opposition parties in the former Soviet republic of Georgia warn that the independence of the courts will be weakened after the ruling party overturned the president’s veto against a judicial reform bill.

The so-called third wave of judicial reform was vetoed

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Russian-backed enclave plans referendum about naming itself after medieval tribe

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Leonid Tibilov, the de facto President of the enclave Republic of South Ossetia. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian-backed separatists who have ruled a region of Georgia since the early 1990s plan to name their self-declared republic after a nomadic tribe that conquered swaths of Europe and North Africa in the Middle Ages.

If the 50,000 population approves

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51 people jailed for entering Georgia’s breakaway territories the wrong way

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The bridge over the river Inguri is currently the only legal way to enter Abkhazia. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has jailed 51 persons over the last nine years for entering Abkhazia or South Ossetia from the wrong direction. The ombudsman now calls for a review of the law.

Georgia’s Law on the Occupied Territories

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Rustavi 2 airs allegations against former deptuty chief prosecutor

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Nika Gvaramia, director of Rustavi 2, the pro-Saakashvili television channel on which the unproven accusations were given extensive air time.

TBILISI, DFWatch–A fiercely anti-government TV station in Georgia aired allegations against a former high-level prosecutor purporting that he had tried to sell a secret recordings of a former prime minister and billionaire.

The word fight was launched during

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UNM to rally to stop Supreme Court ruling against Rustavi 2

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UNM’s Nika Melia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Activists from Georgia’s former ruling party are rallying in Tbilisi on February 10 in order to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling against the top people in the largest opposition TV station.

UNM’s Nika Melia said on Wednesday that the party of ex-President

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Text messages 'prove' Saakashvili ally pressured Georgia Supreme Court judges

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Davit Sakvarelidze, a Georgian who has worked as prosecutor both in his home country and in Ukraine, is accused of sending text messages to two Supreme Court judges in Georgia. He currently lives in Ukraine.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s top prosecutor on Tuesday presented text messages allegedly sent from Ukraine as proof that a close ally of former President Mikheil Saakashvili had tried to put pressure on two Supreme Court judges in a lawsuit that could silence

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