TBILISI, DFWatch–Batumi Muslims continue to rally for permission to build a new mosque in the city. The only existing mosque, called Ortajame, is not large enough and people have to pray on the street.
Several hundred Muslims gathered outside
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CoE criticises Georgia’s record on religious minorities and LGBT rights
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new report published by the Council of Europe (CoE) highlights persisting issues of hate speech, racism, xenophobia, direct violence, and systemic discrimination in Georgia.
On Tuesday, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
Christians and Muslims in Adigeni agree to share cemetery
TBILISI, DFWatch–Muslims and Christians have reached agreement about a cemetery in a village Adigeni, in the south of Georgia, after a tense standoff.
The communities agreed to have one common cemetery, which will be separated by a line.
Jambul Abuladze,
MIA opens investigation into Christian-Muslim cemetery conflict
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has launched an investigation into the religious conflict in Adigeni in southern Georgia, where Muslims and Christians disagree about whether to have a separate graveyard for Muslims.
The investigation
Tbilisi’s Azerbaijani activists call for recognition of the ‘Khojaly Genocide’
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Azerbaijani activists marked the anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy and called for its recognition as a genocide.
On 25 February, a conference on the Khojaly (Xocalı) genocide was held in Tbilisi. The event was organised
Georgia’s Vainakh community commemorates victims of Stalin’s deportations
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Kist, Chechen, Ingush activists and Georgian sympathisers commemorated victims of 1944 deportations with screening of a Chechen film depicting details of the tragedy.
Protesters succeed in preventing LGBT conference at TSU
TBILISI, DFWatch–A conference about sexual minorities had to be moved to another location after Tbilisi State University (TSU) refused to let it be held on February 22 following protests by extreme traditionalists.
The protest was staged by a group which has often
Neighbours Struggle to Deal with Religious Tension in Tbilisi’s Muslim Settlement
Soghanlughi, DFWatch – Global Shia–Sunni conflict found its way into a small Azerbaijani community on the outskirts of Tbilisi.What started as a local tension in the predominantly Muslim settlement of Soghanlughi (Soğanlıq in Azerbaijani), which is a part of Ponichala district in the southeast of Tbilisi, escalated into a conflict informed by events in the Middle East, proving increasingly divisive for the community.
Transgender-themed film screening commemorates activist’s death
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Film starring late transgender activist Bianka Shigurova is a powerful social commentary on transphobia in Georgia.
Short film The Gospel of Anasyrma was screened yesterday in headquarters of