Friday, December 5, 2025

New details may help find who attacked Jehova's Witnesses

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Police in Georgia have new information which may help in finding those who attacked a gathering of Jehova’s Witnesses in Ozurgeti on January 1, 2014. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–New details might help police find out who attacked Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ozurgeti two weeks ago.

In the attack, which took place on January 1, strangers broke the windows of a car the Witnesses were sitting in and threw stones at the building where

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Nigerian king concerned about attack on own citizen in Georgia

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Erik, a citizen of Nigeria, was brutally beaten and robbed on Pekini Street in Tbilisi Thursday night. (Rustavi 2.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A man presenting himself as a king has appealed to the Georgian government for better protection of his fellow countrymen after a Nigerian was brutally attacked in Tbilisi.

Richard Arize, presented by Rustavi 2 as a king of Igbo-Ukwu, a town in

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Georgian Patriarch: Glad gay marriage is not EU requirement

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Georgia’s Patriarch Ilia II. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Patriarch’s Christmas epistle continues to cause controversy in Georgia. Not only in vitro fertilization and the use of surrogate mothers, but also what he wrote about sexual minorities.

“It’s a pity that minority groups, that have sharply

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Will local government reform encourage separatism in Georgia?

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Agit Mirzoev, director of Analytical Center for Interethnic Cooperation and Consultations.

TBILISI, DFWatch–A draft law that will reform local government is causing controversy in Georgia, as some think it may encourage separatism and jeopardize the country’s integrity.

This issue is problematic because the Soviet government created three autonomous

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Language barrier prevents minorities from going into politics

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Rusiko Machaidze, Agit Mirzoev, Tina Ghogheliani, Manana Nachkebia and Levan Vepkhvadze. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Participants at a round table discussion organized by DF Watch said lack of language skills is preventing ethnic minorities from engaging in politics in Georgia.

The discussion was held on December 28, and the topic was what obstacles there are

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Group criticizes Georgia for handling of religious conflicts

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Muslims praying in Samtatskaro. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–After a year of religious conflict in three Georgian villages, neither Christians nor Muslims are fully satisfied with the way the problem was solved.

The Christians do not exclude that conflict might erupt again, while the Muslims still have no

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Georgia introduces law against discrimination

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Minister of Justice Thea Tsulukiani. (Photo published by the Justice Ministry.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Ministry of Justice has prepared a draft law on anti-discrimination.

The proposal aims at eliminating all forms of discrimination, Justice Minister Thea Tsulukiani explained as she met human rights organizations, representatives of

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