Thursday, April 30, 2026

Journalist detained for putting up poster mocking Ivanishvili

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(Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia on Friday detained an opposition-leaning journalist for putting up a poster mocking billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Tamar Chergoleishvili, founder of a television company strongly supportive of the National Movement, was detained with two others as they stuck a poster on

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ICC prosecutor arrives in Georgia to conduct 2008 war probe

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ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda arrived in Georgia Thursday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrived in Georgia Thursday, to determine if there is basis for a trial for war crimes in the 2008 war.

Bensouda earlier this week filed a 160 page long request to authorize an investigation

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Georgia to allow human rights inspectors to take photos in prisons

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Prison Minister Kakha Kakhishvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian government will from next year allow the Public Defender’s Office to take pictures inside prison.

This will allow photographic evidence to be obtained in cases where there is suspicion of abuse, or when sanitary conditions

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ISIS commander from Pankisi reported to have died in Iraqi air raid

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Omar al-Shishani, also known as Tarkhan Batirashvili.

TBILISI, DFWatch–An Iranian news agency reports that Omar Al-Shishani, an ISIS commander who originally comes from Pankisi, Georgia, has died in an Iraqi air raid. The reports have not yet been confirmed.

IRNA reports that Iraqi fighter jets wounded

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Construction work starts on new children's hospice in Tbilisi

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(DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Construction work began Saturday in the north of Tbilisi on what will become in Georgia’s first palliative care center for children.

The initiators of the new hospice marked the start of construction work in the village Dighomi, a Tbilisi suburb.

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