DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president on Tuesday pardoned 78 prisoners in connection with Easter.
Zviad Koridze, Head of the President’s Pardon Commission, said at a press conference that 57 prisoners will be released from jail today. The remaining 21 had their
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Georgian boys who recently went to Syria to join Islamic State have called their parents in Pankisi Gorge and sent home their first picture.
Muslim Kushtanashvili (16) and Ramzan Baghakashvili (18) said they are fine and haven’t seen any fighting
TBILISI, DFWatch–Easter was celebrated in Tbilisi as usual this year, despite bad weather. People visit the graves of their relatives on the first or second day of Easter.
Christianity was declared state religion in Georgia in 4th century and as the eastern
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man died during a traditional Easter ball game in a small village in Georgia’s Guria region on Sunday.
The victim was Gocha Pirtskhalaishvili, of about 50 years. Doctors believe the cause of death was shortness of breath.
He died while participating
TBILISI, DFWatch–An explosion allegedly caused by a gas leak killed a 65 year old woman in Tbilisi Sunday morning.
The explosion demolished the eighth floor of a building in Gldani, a district in northern part of the capital, and killed Zoia Kalandarishvili,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Saturday placed a man suspected of murdering two policemen in pre-trial detention.
The defense did not object to the Prosecutor General’s Office request for detention.
The suspect Shalva Abuladze and his lawyer said
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Friday met with Pope Francis in Rome.
President Giorgi Margvelashvili afterward summed up the meeting as a ‘very important’ one for Georgia.
He said he told the pontiff about security issues, the situation in the Caucasus
TBILISI, DFWatch–After a man suspected of killing two policemen evaded arrest for almost a week, Georgia’s prime minister says that government will be ‘ruthless toward crime’.
The announcement came after several law-enforcement ministers have talked about tougher
TBILISI, DFWatch–The suspect in the murder of two policemen, who was subject to a search by not only the police, but also counterintelligence, was apprehended near his hometown in an abandoned house on Friday.
The Interior Ministry confirmed this on Friday.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has signed an agreement with a British consultancy firm to reform the country’s healthcare system.
The goal of the agreement with Global Alliance for Health and Social Compact Ltd is to bring Georgia’s health system in line with European