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TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has questioned the wife of the former interior minister regarding a case of beating of policemen.
This is a case in which former officials in the Interior Ministry have been charged.
Tako Salakaia, wife of
TBILISI, DFWatch — The new government has decided to cancel tuition fees for many popular studies.
Bachelor students in 14 fields of specialization at state universities will have their tuition fees cut to zero from 2013.
The free subjects will be agronomy, education sciences, energy
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office has officially charged a former Justice Minister in absentia for abuse of power and being responsible for torturing prisoners.
Zurab Adeishvili, the former Justice Minister in Saakashvili’s government who
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Ministry of Refugees and Internally Displaced People has discovered five unregistered warehouses, where there were kept humanitarian aid which should have been distributed to refugees in 2008 and 2009.
The ministry on Friday published photos
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian parliament overrode President Mikheil Saakashvili’s veto against a law about mass amnesty.
91 MPs voted against Saakashvili’s new version of the law, while 4 supported it. Now, the Georgian Dream coalition’s law, which was passed
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Dream coalition says parliament will return to Tbilisi by the end of the spring session.
After the parliamentary election in October, 2012, the eighth parliamentary assembly has been holding sessions in a new building in Kutaisi,
TBILISI, DFWatch — The governing Georgian Dream coalition suggests bringing forward a planned reform to give the president power to immediately dissolve parliament and announce a new parliamentary election.
The powers are part of a package of constitutional
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has vetoed the coming into force of a law on amnesty, and sent his own version of the law to parliament.
Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili on Friday said the legislative body has received the president’s
TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili will veto a planned mass amnesty passed by parliament, arguing that the new government is about to release dangerous people into society.
The amnesty was passed by parliament December 22 after much
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia says public money was spent on campaign rallies for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement party last September, which is illegal, and that documents were falsified to cover it up.
The party