TBILISI, July 28 – Supporters gathered Monday evening to show support for ten people who were detained Sunday outside Tbilisi City Assembly, on Freedom Square in central Tbilisi. The ten who were detained Sunday, were charged with petty hooliganism and resisting law enforcement based on administrative law, a fast track public order mechanism based on … Read more
TBILISI, July 28 – A traffic accident in Khelvachauri, near Batumi on Georgia’s Black Sea coast has taken the life of one person, while another was injured. The accident, reported late Monday evening by Interpressnews, occurred on the central highway when two cars collided. Police arrived at the site of the accident. An investigation was … 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 – 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 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
TBILISI, July 24 – A construction worker has died after falling from a building site in Tbilisi, Interpressnews reported Friday. The accident happened at a construction site on Aleksandre Chavchavadze Street in the Georgian capital. According to the news agency, the victim was a man under the age of 40. He died after falling from … Read more
TBILISI, July 24 – Electricity has been fully restored across Georgia after a major overnight blackout left Tbilisi and other regions without power for several hours, Interpressnews reported. Georgia’s State Electrosystem said on Friday morning that power supply had been restored throughout the country. The outage began at around 00:10 on Friday, affecting both the … Read more
TBILISI, July 24 – A major power outage hit parts of Georgia shortly after midnight on Friday, cutting electricity in several cities, including Tbilisi, before supply began to return gradually in the early morning hours. Interpressnews first reported at 00:30 that electricity had gone out in parts of the country. At that time, several cities, … Read more