TBILISI, DFWatch–When strangers attacked a car and a house where Jehova’s Witnesses are meeting in Ozurgeti, Georgia, on January 1, it was not the first such attack.
Two years ago, strangers broke the windows of Kingdom Hall in Ozurgeti. The perpetrators were
TBILISI, DFWatch–Some of the Chechens in Pankisi Gorge close to the Russian border say they are blackmailed and harassed by Georgian counterintelligence.
Saikhan Muzayev, a former Russian and Arabic translator for the Refugee Ministry, said at a press
TBILISI, DFWatch–Muslims in Georgia say they are being pressured by law enforcement bodies.
Clerics from the Muslims community January 22 met with the Public Defender.
According to the Ombudsman’s office, the meeting dealt with problems they are experiencing and
TBILISI, DFWatch–Human Rights Watch criticizes Georgia in its World Report 2014 for not having done enough to protect the rights of religious minorities and LGBT.
When it comes to religious rights, the organization points out that the Muslim minority has experienced
TBILISI, DFWatch–Muslims in Georgia will from now on have two muftis instead of one. This was decided at a session of the Administration of Muslims of all Georgia on January 9.
Jemal Paksadze, who used to be the Mufti of all Georgia, from now on will be mufti of
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
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
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
TBILISI, DFWatch–For the last 14 years, Kariata Tsimirbulatova has lived with her husband and four children in Duisi, a village in a valley in the northeastern part of Georgia near the border to Chechnya called Pankisi Gorge.
The members of her family have recently
TBILISI, DFWatch–January 1, unknown persons attacked a gathering of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ozurgeti.
According to local media in the Guria region, the assailants broke the windows of a car the Jehovah’s Witnesses were sitting in and threw stones at the building where they