TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has created a 12 member investigative group to deal with the mass of complaints flowing in.
Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Wednesday that the group consists solely of young prosecutors who finished
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four fired doctors on Wednesday ended their week-long hunger strike after learning that the director of the emergency service where they worked has been removed from his position.
The doctors started their protest March 6. They said had they
TBILISI, DFWatch–There are twelve Georgian prisoners in South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian region, according to the public defender Ucha Nanuashvili.
He told Pirveli Radio Wednesday that his office has received positive signal from non-government organizations in
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s chief prosecutor and justice minister claim that the long time former interior minister Vano Merabishvili was implicated in the killing of Sandro Girgvliani, a controversial murder committed by the police in 2006.
Chief Prosecutor Archil
TBILISI, DFWatch–The majority of foreign visitors to Georgia in 2013 came from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine and Iran.
As there is no mechanism to categorize people crossing the border of the country, the government provides general information about
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliament in Georgia on Friday decided to end the practice of mandatory consecutive sentence.
Following the amendments to the Criminal Law code and Criminal Law Procedure Code, the longer sentence absorbs the shorter one; what is called
TBILISI, DFWatch–The latest snowfall has made driving conditions so poor that the road from the winter resort Gudauri to the village Kobi has been closed for all traffic.
On other roads there are restrictions from some types of traffic.
Along the road section from
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Saturday held pretrial hearing in two of the five criminal cases currently brought against former defense minister Bacho Akhalaia to decide on preventive measures before the trial.
For the third time, Akhalaia was given pretrial
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office lost its appeal about issuing bail conditions for Tbilisi mayor Gigi Ugulava in a case about money laundering and embezzlement.
The Appeals Court refused to set a one million GEL (USD 600 000) bail for mayor and suspend him
TBILISI, DFWatch–One of the main topics of conversation when Georgia and Russia met in Prague yesterday was whether Russia will simplify visa rules for Georgian citizens.
(Article has been updated with comments from Russia’s foreign ministry.)
The two countries