DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Public Defender calls for an objectively investigation into the death of Solomon Kimeridze.
“The cause of death should be found; also whether he was a victim of inhumane and severe treatment,” says a recent statement by the Public
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Civil Registry is out of time to give a written response regarding opposition businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian citizenship, his lawyers say.
On January 5, his lawyers filed an application to the Civil Registry asking to give Ivanshvili
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Constitutional Court has decided that parliament did not have the right to give prosecutors powers to conduct secret wiretappings.
Tamar Khidasheli and Georgian Young Lawyers Association filed a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court regarding
TBILISI, DFWatch – The ‘This Affects You Too’ campaign continues to push for amendments to recent new rules that they say restricts freedom of speech, property rights, the right to political activism, right to assembly and independence more generally.
Today,
TBILISI, DFWatch – A Russian Duma member calls Georgia’s lifting of visa rules for Russians propaganda.
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said in his annual speech to parliament Tuesday night that he would drop visa requirements for all Russian citizens. Today,
TBILISI, DFWatch – The political party For a Renewed Georgia will today open a regional office in Mtskheta-Mtianeti north of Tbilisi for refugees from the Akhalgori region.
Party leaders will meet residents of Tsilknisi and Tserovani, two villages where most of the refugees
TBILISI, DFWatch – Only four candidates have been approved to participate in the March 25 election to fill the post as president of the de facto republic of South Ossetia, a Georgian breakaway region currently occupied by Russia.
Today the Central Election Commission
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili Tuesday February 28 gave his address to parliament and summarized the country’s situation as required by the Georgian Constitution.
The leader grouped his political plans into five main points: Tackling unemployment,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Israeli officials deny that there are in talks with Georgia about handing over control over the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem.
“This is news for us. We have heard nothing like that,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Yigal Palmor said,
TBILISI, DFWatch – There were tough exchanges in the Georgian parliament yesterday, with President Mikheil Saakashvili at one point leaving the room after recommending an opponent to take a therapeutic mud bath to get rid of his delusions.
The situation became so heated that