TBILISI, DFWatch–Strangers Monday posted one more video online showing sex scenes involving a public person. The Youtube video was accompanied by a warning that more videos will be posted soon. Youtube was cut off for some time for Georgian users.
DFWatch staff
Gaprindashvili withdraws candidacy after student protests
TBILISI, DFWatch–After four days of students occupying a building at Tbilisi State University, Giorgi Gaprindashvili announced that he is withdrawing his candidacy for university chancellor.
“I am ready to step [aside] considering the interests
Shishani ‘clinically dead’: Syrian monitor
TBILISI, DFWatch–According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Islamic State’s field commander Tarkhan Batirashvili, mostly known under his nom de guerre Abu Omar Shishani, has been ‘clinically dead’ for several days, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
Russians building new road near South Ossetia boundary line
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russians are constructing a new road near the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) with Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia, at the village Jariasheni.
The State Security Service Sunday informed that the construction
Ex-prosecutor reveals systematic sex surveillance and blackmail
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Tbilisi prosecutor claims that the military inspection at the Defense Ministry used to collect videos depicting intimate situations of gay men during Saakashvili’s presidency, to use for blackmail.
Maia Mtsariashvili, a former prosecutor,
Sanikidze calls for inquest into intel agents at TSU
TBILISI, DFWatch–Education Minister Tamar Sanikidze is considering asking parliament to hold an inquest into the presence of intelligence agents at Tbilisi State University.
Saturday evening, Sanikidze met students at TSU who for the last three days
Georgian man charged with faking power of attorney to steal land plot
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man was detained on Saturday, charged with appropriating a plot of land in Tbilisi which belongs to an Egyptian citizen.
The investigation service of the Finance Ministry informed that a Georgian citizen called Giorgi fabricated documents in order
Harsh punishment for spreading secretly recorded sex video: Georgian PM
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili on Saturday warned people who uploaded a sex video of an opposition politician to the Internet that they will be harshly punished.
In a statement issued on Saturday the PM explains that this will be an example
ვინ/რა არის „ოდეერი“?
თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტში უშიშროების ჩანერგილი აგენტის, ე.წ. ოდეერის არსებობა თავად რექტორმაც დაადასტურა და როგორც სტუდენტების ერთი ნაწილი ამტკიცებს, ის უნივერსიტეტის საქმეებში და კანცლერის არჩევნებში უხეშად ერევა.
Compromising video of opposition politician posted on Youtube
TBILISI, DFWatch–A video depicting the sex life of a politician from the opposition was Friday posted on Youtube and privately sent to several Georgian journalists by e-mail.
Some of the media outlets disclosed the name of the person in the video, but later apologized.