Friday, December 5, 2025

Yazidi refugees in Georgia awaiting decision

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Irakli Lomidze (left), head of Asylum Department at the Refugee Ministry. Dimitry Pirbar, head of the Religious Council of Yazidis in Georgia. (Click to activate video.) (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 50 Yazidis have fled from Iraq to Georgia and applied for political asylum here.

DF Watch September 3 organized a discussion about the situation.

Dimitry Pirbar, head of the Religious Council of Yazidis in Georgia, said he had been to Iraq

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Religious summer camp brings children together across confessions

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The camp in Vartsikhe brought together children of different religious background. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A ten-day summer camp was organized in mid-August for about one hundred Georgian Muslim and Christian children. The camp is aimed at making friends, train and educate, as well as breaking down prejudices about religion.

Giorgi Jaiani, 15, came

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How Georgians view minorities: Protect minority groups but not gays

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One of the injured in the anti-gay rally on May 17, 2013. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–63 percent of Georgians think it is important to protect the rights of minorities, but they don’t want such protection extended to sexual minorities.

National Democratic Institute (NDI) on Monday published the results of its newest survey of public

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Mosque issue in Batumi remains unresolved

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Tariel Nakaidze, one of the founders of the Union of Georgian Muslims. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Years have passed without a solution to the need for a new mosque in Batumi. The governments keep promising Muslims that they will make a decision, but according to Muslims, both the central and the local government are attempting to delay

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Yazidis in Tbilisi call on the world to stop ISIS

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Yazidis in Tbilisi demonstrated against the brutal attacks on their people by ISIS in Iraq. (Photo: Georgian Union of Kurdish Youth.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–‘Stop ISIS’ was the slogan of a rally organized by the Yazidi community in Tbilisi as a show of solidarity with their besieged countrymen in Iraq, who suffer from ruthless savagery by the terrorists from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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Georgian government official gives details about UN committee's work

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Surb Etchmiadzin Church in Tbilisi, where priests were attacked by a crowd last month.

TBILISI, DFWatch–A government official in Georgia has provided details about the internal work of a United Nations committee tasked with overseeing the human rights situation in member countries.

Levan Isakhanyan, Head of the Department of Legal Affairs, Relations

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Waiting for new school building in Lambalo

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Only the foundation of the new school has been built so far. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For seven years, children in the small predominantly Azeri village Lambalo in Georgia have had to attend school classes in old barns.

In 2006, a group of experts announced that the old school in Lambalo had been sold and it was closed. The school

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Ombudsman asks for effective investigation of Armenian church attack

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Ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian ombudsman addresses law enforcement bodies to properly and effectively investigate the attack on priests at an Armenian church on July 19.

On Saturday, about 50 people attacked Surb Etchmiadzin Church in Tbilisi. The Armenian Diocese

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