Friday, December 5, 2025

Negotiations between Saakashvili's and Ivanishvili's people

Giga Bokeria (left), representing President Mikheil Saakashvili, runs into Irakli Alasania (right), representing Bidzina Ivanishvili, exiting the elevator Friday. (Georgian Dream photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The winner of the aryparliament election, Georgian Dream, will from October 8 send representatives to each state body to start a  ‘peaceful transfer of government’ until a new government is formed.

This was one of the major decisions made at a meeting between

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Call for Georgian leaders to be banned in the West

Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili is one of the Georgian leaders that activists want banned in Western countries following the prisoner abuse scandal. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Groups in Georgia demands that the former prison minister, former interior minister, current justice minister and current chief prosecutor are banned from civilized countries because of their cruel and inhuman treatment of citizens.

The appeal

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Ivanishvili's campaign surges after abuse scandal

Over fifty thousand people turned up to listen to Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili's first campaign speech after the prisoner abuse scandal. (GD photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the government’s main competitor in the election in just over a week says that he has plans to solve the conflicts of Georgia’s breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili says first, rail and road

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Prisoner said he was beaten after shakeup

A prisoner said he was beaten by the head of the prison in Rustavi, south of Tbilisi, on September 19. The photo shows Gldani, where the filmed abuse took place. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The first new story of prisoner abuse has surfaced after President Saakashvili began a major shakeup of Georgia’s prison system.

The attempt at “resetting” the prison reform comes after a wave of criticism following several videos showing

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Georgia's interior minister resigns over abuse scandal

Bacho Akhalaia is seen by many as having established the system of abuse in Georgia's prisons. Thursday evening, he resigned as interior minister. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – After releasing the scandalous footage of prisoner abuse, Georgia’s powerful interior minister, who is suspected to be behind these incidents, has been forced to leave his post. For three days people all over Georgia have been demanding that Bacho

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Georgian elite dancers support opposition

Nino Sukhishvili, chair of Georgian National Ballet, says some of their dancers' reaction regarding prisoners abuse is quite adequate. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Five members of the Georgian president’s favorite dance troupe, the National Ballet, say they support his main opponent.

Georgian National Ballet – founded at the end of the Second World War — is the country’s most famous dance ensemble and its

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