DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, July 27 – A Georgian man was released by de facto South Ossetian authorities on Monday. The 59-year-old was detained the day before near Perevi, in Sachkhere municipality. The breakaway region’s news agency RES reported that he had ‘inadvertently crossed the border near the village of Sinagur in the Dzau District,’ according to a … Read more
TBILISI, July 27 – Ten people were detained Sunday night, at a political protest outside the Tbilisi city assembly building on Freedom Square. Interpressnews first reported the detention of Tornike Toshkhua around 10pm in the evening, while holding a banner with an obscene message about Bidzina Ivanishvili, founder of the governing Georgian Dream party. Toshkhua … Read more
TBILISI, July 26 – Thirteen people were injured Sunday when a passenger bus ran off the road in Zestaponi, in the central Imereti region of Georgia. The accident happened at Argveta, just west of the city limits. All those injured were brought to two clinics in Zestaponi, Peromed and Geo Hospitals, Interpressnews reported. The news … Read more
TBILISI, July 26 – Two cars crashed near Alazni bridge in Kvareli municipality Sunday, Interpressnews reported. All four occupants of the two cars were injured, including two minors. One of the injured, a 29-year-old woman, was brought to the Geo Hospitals clinin in Gurjaani in a serious condition. The news agency reported that doctors tried … Read more
TBILISI, July 25 – Georgia has opened a sabotage investigation after two nationwide power failures struck on consecutive days, while Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili called the repeated shutdowns an “unusual event”. The State Security Service said Saturday that it had launched the investigation following emergency electricity cuts across the country on July 24 and July … Read more
TBILISI, July 25 – A 28-year-old man who went missing in Georgia’s mountainous Tusheti region has been found dead near a river, Interpressnews reported Saturday. The body of Avto Markhvaidze, a resident of the village of Kvemo Alvani in Akhmeta municipality, was found in the Gometsari valley, near the village of Beghela. According to relatives, … Read more
TBILISI, July 25 – A Tbilisi court has ordered pre-trial detention for Nika Kapanadze, the man arrested after a shooting in the capital’s Vera district that left a 17-year-old boy dead and three other people wounded. The court hearing was held on Saturday at the Aleksandre Aladashvili clinic because of Kapanadze’s health condition, Rezonansi reported. … Read more
TBILISI, July 25 – A Georgian consumer group is warning the public about what it describes as a new pyramid-style scheme using fake job offers and promises of easy income. The non-governmental organization Society and Banks said Saturday that a company called PCDAI has been active on social media, offering people future employment and income … Read more
TBILISI, July 25 – Georgia’s power system collapsed again Saturday morning after a major transmission line went offline, the director of the Enguri hydropower plant said. Levan Mebonia, director of Enguri HPP, told pro-opposition TV Pirveli that the outage was caused by the shutdown of the 500-kV “Imereti” line. He said a heavy load was … Read more
TBILISI, July 24 – Georgian police arrested doctor Giorgi Akhobadze at his home on Friday after a court sentenced him to 25 days of administrative detention earlier the same day over a Facebook comment. According to Interpressnews, Akhobadze had been summoned to court because of a comment he posted on Facebook. The Interior Ministry accuses … Read more