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TBILISI, DFWatch — Former Deputy Interior Minister Shota Khizanishvili was on Sunday given pre-trial detention until the start of the court case on December 28.
Khizanishvili, who is currently Deputy Mayor of Tbilisi, was detained November 15 for abuse of powers
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office on Monday is expected to charge the former head of Georgia’s domestic intelligence service in absentia.
Data Akhalaia was head of the Constitutional Security Department (CSD), locally known as ‘Kudi’, and former
TBILISI, DFWatch — Ten of the intelligence officers who were detained Friday have been sentenced to preliminary detention by Tbilisi City Court and were denied bail.
November 15, eleven employees of the constitutional security department (CSD) of the interior ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s defense and foreign ministers on Saturday met the U.S. Philip Gordon, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State.
Gordon, whose full title is U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, visited Georgia for a second day
TBILISI, DFWatch — The U.S. diplomat Philip Gordon Friday met government and other officials in Georgia.
Gordon, whose full title is U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, met with Davit Usupashvili, Speaker of Parliament; Davit Bakradze
TBILISI, DFWatch — The long serving interior minister in Georgia has weighed in on the prosecution of his former deputy.
Vano Merabishvili, the powerful and feared former interior minister who last summer became prime minister, and after losing the parliamentary
TBILISI, DFWatch — Prosecutors in Georgia have detained twelve former and current mostly intelligence officers and accused them of kidnapping, unjustified interrogations, abuse of powers, intrusion on privacy and intentional damage to property.
Eleven out of the
TBILISI, DFWatch — The delayed visit by NATO’s Military Committee will take place in the first half of 2013.
“The parties have decided that high military officials of the Alliance will visit Georgia in the first half of 2013,” the defense ministry informs, explaining
TBILISI, DFWatch — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Philip Gordon, is visiting Georgia Friday.
Gordon will meet with government officials.
According to the U.S. embassy in Georgia, he will once again underline that the U.S. is
TBILISI, DFWatch — A TV channel controlled by the former Saakashvili’s government on Wednesday got a new director, who used to be former government official.
Rustavi 2 is considered to have played a major role during the Rose Revolution in 2003 and used to be