TBILISI, DFWatch–60 prisoners with life sentence are continuing their hunger strike to demand a new assessment of their cases.
The prisoners on lifelong term want to be included in a mass amnesty introduced by the new Georgian Dream coalition
In brief
President's annual address will be on March 18
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president’s annual state of the nation address in parliament will be held on March 18.
It is still an open question whether there will be a debate after President Giorgi Margvelashvili’s address.
His parliamentary secretary Giorgi
Road closed in Gudauri due to heavy snow
TBILISI, DFWatch–Traffic is prohibited along the Gudauri-Kobi section of the old military highway in northern Georgia due to snow and danger of avalanche.
According to the Infrastructure Ministry’s road department, no vehicles are allowed through in that stretch
Poland ratifies Georgia's EU agreement
TBILISI, DFWatch–Poland ratified the association agreement between Georgia and the EU on Friday; the 13th EU member state to do so.
The vote in the Sejm was 439 for ratification, none against and one abstaining.
The agreement gives Georgia free trade access
Escaped prisoner caught in Batumi
TBILISI, DFWatch–A prisoner who escaped from a court building two days ago has been apprehended in Batumi on the Black Sea coast.
The prisoner escaped from the court cell in Gurjaani Regional Court on February 2 after hearing that he was being placed in
Two detained in Georgia for forging US visas
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two people were detained in Georgia on Friday for making fake US visas.
Police working together with staff of the US embassy’s security department found that two people – a man about 40 and a woman about 50 – were making forged documents
Six detained in Tbilisi at rally against National Movement
TBILISI, DFWatch–Six people were detained for petty hooliganism in Tbilisi on Tuesday, during a rally outside the office of the National Movement.
The rally was organized by the youth movement Free Generation, which demands to convict former officials and ‘restore justice.’
Prisoner on the run in Kakheti, eastern Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia are searching for a prisoner who escaped from a court building on Monday.
The man, a resident of the a village Velistsikhe, is charged with injuring a person with a weapon.
The regional court in Gurjaani, in the Kakheti region
Seat in Georgian parliament empty as MP dies of illness
TBILISI, DFWatch–A member of parliament from the Georgian Dream coalition has died as result of serious illness, parliament’s press office said on Friday.
Tamaz Avdaliani, who was born September 16, 1964. In October, 2012, was elected through the party list
Ivanishvili plans tv series about Saakashvili's nine year rule
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili plans a TV series about the nine years of National Movement rule.
In an interview with Imedi TV on Wednesday, Ivanishvili said the name of the series will be ‘9+1’, which indicates the nine