DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia will send an appeal to the president asking to pardon him as soon as possible.
Akhalaia, who faced a number of charges after the change of government, was acquitted in two of the cases, and sentenced to three
TBILISI, DFWatch–National Democratic Institute (NDI) says after observing the election campaign and the October 27 election that a multiparty and competitive election is becoming routine in Georgian politics.
NDI’s observer mission consisted of a 20-member group, who
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Judiciary Committee in parliament supports a constitutional amendment to move parliament back to the capital Tbilisi.
For the last year and a half, parliament has been located in Kutaisi, in western Georgia.
Thursday, the
TBILISI, DFWatch–A court in France has confirmed the detention of former Georgian Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili.
Kezerashvili is charged with abuse of powers while he was defense minister and was detained at Nice airport on October 15.
A court placed him in 40
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is planning to fine the use of communist symbols with 1 000 lari (USD 600).
The use of communist symbols was prohibited by the previous government, but it failed to define the sanctions that apply, and the law has remained inactive.
Now, the
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has pardoned 248 prisoners, 170 of whom had their sentence stricken from their criminal record.
56 had their sentence reduced to half, while 5 received a lighter sentence.
Among those pardoned are former government
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court found Bacho Akhalaia not guilty of abusing seven special unit employees, a case which has been under review for two months.
The former defense minister was on trial for mistreatment and torture for political reasons of seven special
TBILISI, DFWatch–Father of Goga Dzvelaia, who allegedly committed suicide in Kutaisi’s prison no 2 a few weeks ago, claims that the prison ministry showed him footage of another person instead of his son.
On Tuesday, the family watched 24 hours of a surveillance tape which
TBILISI, DFWatch–Interpol has issued a red alert in the search for Samar Chokutaev, the alleged perpetrator behind the so-called jihad videos against Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan.
The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia sent documents to Interpol asking to launch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Rome have detained three Georgians who are suspected of murdering the Russian mafia boss Ded Hassan in January, 2013.
76 year-old Aslan Usoyan, also known as Ded Hassan, or Grandpa Hassan, was shot in the head by a sniper when he was