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TBILISI, DFWatch–Direct foreign investments in Georgia was 33 percent lower in the third quarter of 2015 than in the same period last year, according to preliminary data from the National Statistics Department.
Direct foreign investments amounted to USD 489 million
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man who married a 13 year old girl and now has two children by her will not face trial for sexual relations with a minor, prosecutors have decided.
Nadim Paksadze, who is now 21, was under investigation for marrying a minor, which has become
TBILISI, DFWatch–A construction worker died on Tuesday during work on a bypass road near Kobuleti in western Georgia.
The 40-year-old man is said to have fallen from a 20-meter tall bridge and died from multiple injuries.
An investigation has been launched
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is in negotiations with Turkey about locating all 274 Georgian prisoners in that country in the same jail.
The Georgian prison minister visited Turkey’s justice minister Tuesday and discussed conditions of Georgian prisoners,
TBILISI, DFWatch–By October, 995 persons had applied for asylum in Georgia, while 1,192 people were living here under protection of international law, according to a new report by the Public Defender.
The report, which was published on Monday, shows that
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Orthodox Church issued a short statement Sunday evening explaining that Patiarch Ilia II never meant to ask for legislative amendments to grant him the right to pardon prisoners.
December 5, the patriarch attended a performance by women prisoners at Rustaveli Theatre,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A strike among workers on the BP South Caucasus pipeline expansion has ended without drama as management fulfilled the main demand, but workers who were fired have not been given their jobs back.
Three days ago, nearly 200 workers
TBILISI, DFWatch–The head of the Georgian Orthodox Church has asked for the power to pardon prisoners.
Catholicos Patriarch Ilia II said Saturday that he thinks a patriarch should be able to pardon prisoners and added that he has spoken with the prime minister
TBILISI, DFWatch–The current president of Georgia on Friday revoked the citizenship of his predecessor, Mikheil Saakashvili, who is now governor of Odessa in Ukraine.
Georgian legislation doesn’t allow dual citizenship. Since Saakashvili became a citizen of Ukraine
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police Friday detained a suspect who allegedly robbed a mosque in Tbilisi.
The suspect, a 22 year old man, secretly snuck into a mosque in the old part of Tbilisi and stole a computer from a room used by Mullahs, and then went into hiding, according to the Interior Ministry.