DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, July 28 – Georgian police have arrested a man accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in the western region of Guria, Rezonansi reported Tuesday. The suspect is the husband of the girl’s aunt, according to the report. Local residents told TV Pirveli that the alleged assault happened on Monday, while the man was visiting … Read more
TBILISI, July 28 – Supporters gathered Monday evening to show support for ten people who were detained Sunday outside Tbilisi City Assembly, on Freedom Square in central Tbilisi. The ten who were detained Sunday, were charged with petty hooliganism and resisting law enforcement based on administrative law, a fast track public order mechanism based on … Read more
TBILISI, July 28 – A traffic accident in Khelvachauri, near Batumi on Georgia’s Black Sea coast has taken the life of one person, while another was injured. The accident, reported late Monday evening by Interpressnews, occurred on the central highway when two cars collided. Police arrived at the site of the accident. An investigation was … Read more
TBILISI, July 27 – Residents of a village north of Tbilisi are demanding the closure of a large truck park, saying exhaust fumes, noise and pollution are making the area increasingly difficult to live in. The facility is located near Navazi village in Mtskheta municipality, close to the Aragvi River. It opened on October 11, … Read more
TBILISI, July 27 – A Georgian man was released by de facto South Ossetian authorities on Monday. The 59-year-old was detained the day before near Perevi, in Sachkhere municipality. The breakaway region’s news agency RES reported that he had ‘inadvertently crossed the border near the village of Sinagur in the Dzau District,’ according to a … Read more
TBILISI, July 27 – Ten people were detained Sunday night, at a political protest outside the Tbilisi city assembly building on Freedom Square. Interpressnews first reported the detention of Tornike Toshkhua around 10pm in the evening, while holding a banner with an obscene message about Bidzina Ivanishvili, founder of the governing Georgian Dream party. Toshkhua … Read more
TBILISI, July 26 – Thirteen people were injured Sunday when a passenger bus ran off the road in Zestaponi, in the central Imereti region of Georgia. The accident happened at Argveta, just west of the city limits. All those injured were brought to two clinics in Zestaponi, Peromed and Geo Hospitals, Interpressnews reported. The news … Read more
TBILISI, July 26 – Two cars crashed near Alazni bridge in Kvareli municipality Sunday, Interpressnews reported. All four occupants of the two cars were injured, including two minors. One of the injured, a 29-year-old woman, was brought to the Geo Hospitals clinin in Gurjaani in a serious condition. The news agency reported that doctors tried … Read more
TBILISI, July 25 – Georgia has opened a sabotage investigation after two nationwide power failures struck on consecutive days, while Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili called the repeated shutdowns an “unusual event”. The State Security Service said Saturday that it had launched the investigation following emergency electricity cuts across the country on July 24 and July … Read more
TBILISI, July 25 – A 28-year-old man who went missing in Georgia’s mountainous Tusheti region has been found dead near a river, Interpressnews reported Saturday. The body of Avto Markhvaidze, a resident of the village of Kvemo Alvani in Akhmeta municipality, was found in the Gometsari valley, near the village of Beghela. According to relatives, … Read more