DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch — Political prisoners, who were released last Sunday when the new amnesty law came into force, visited the Georgian Patriarch, who blessed them.
The prisoners came to Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi to attend the prayer for the Orthodox holiday of Epiphany,
TBILISI, DFWatch — Yuval Fuchs, Israel’s Ambassador to Georgia, tells DF Watch that cooperation between Israeli and Georgia should be strengthened and he thinks Israel is able to help Georgia in terms of economic development, especially in agriculture.
But there was
TBILISI,DFWatch — The Special State Protection Service of Georgia is now under the control of the government, and not the president.
Parliament passed the law by 88 votes against 1 on Thursday.
Earlier, the president had a right to appoint the chair of the Special
TBILISI, DFWatch — Police in Georgia Thursday morning detained former prison guard Vladimer Bedukadze at Tbilisi airport, as he arrived from Istanbul.
Bedukadze last year published five video clips documenting prisoner abuse, which caused a public outrage that led
TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili asks the government to award pension to all families which have had one of their members die in the military.
He presented the initiative at New Year’s and described it again at a press conference at his palace
TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili proposes to make it a crime to publish material exposing someone’s private life.
A few days ago, the Prosecutor’s Office released information about a former government official ordering Defense Ministry officials
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili suggests that the government decriminalizes economic crime, because of the importance of continuing to attract investments.
Saakashvili said at a press conference at his palace in Tbilisi Thursday that
TBILISI, DFWatch — A former Interior Ministry top was Thursday released on bail.
Shota Khizanishvili, who after the National Movement’s election loss became Deputy Mayor of Tbilisi, was included in a mass amnesty which applies to more than 18 500 prisoners.
The
TBILISI, DFWatch — A common economic market between Georgia and Armenia. This was one of the tangible results of a visit by Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili to neighboring Armenia Thursday.
He was accompanied on his official visit by a government
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Ministry of Internal Affairs has finished looking into what happened when a well-known musician was questioned, and says it did not find any indications that he was pressured.
Beka Gochiashvili, 16, a jazz pianist who lives in the US but