Mari Nikuradze 
TBILISI, DFWatch – Around ten youth activists today protested outside the Georgian National Communication Commission against the fining of a regional television station.
Irakli Beraia, one of the activists, says the fine is an attempt by the government to suppress
TBILISI, DFWatch – Tbilisi City Court has sentenced a Russian businessman to pay a fine of about USD 1 200 because he had visited Abkhazia before coming to Georgia.
The court found that the businessman had violated a law which bans travel across the borders
TBILISI, DFWatch – They came holding candles to commemorate the twenty people who died here twenty three years ago. But police cleared them away to make room for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s April 9 event.
Just before Saakashvili was to hold his speech, police
TBILISI, DFWatch – Yesterday, he was denied having his political rights restored, but today Georgia’s richest man vowed to regain his citizenship, form a political party and launch himself as candidate for Prime Minister within just over two weeks.
Georgian
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian authorities today denied the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili of becoming a citizen of his native country.
Today’s decision by the Civil Registry to deny him citizenship by naturalization ends the last legal avenue the opposition
TBILISI, DFWatch – The billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is considered the main competitor of the Georgian government, is counting the days left until his Georgian citizenship is restored, giving him full political rights.
The final date for when the government
TBILISI, DFWatch – Marking a break with single issue campaigning, rights groups in Tbilisi Saturday held a demonstration for solidarity and people power.
The demonstration was called Civic Solidarity Campaign and consisted of six human chains on six squares in the capital,
TBILISI, DFWatch – The current situation in Georgian prisons remains one of the main problems in the human rights field, according to the public defender’s annual report to parliament.
About 300 pages out of 645 explain the conditions and problems in Georgian prisons.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Vakhtang Nadibaidze (53) stands in line in front of the Polish embassy, waiting for the answer to his visa application. Many Georgians have been in his place, facing the labyrinth it is to get a visa at the European embassies here.
He remembers how about
TBILISI, DFWatch – Representatives of Tbilisi State University’s student’s union Wednesday beat two students.
The students who were beaten believe the reason was a recently started blog which contains criticism of the student’s union and its actions, as well as the university.