Saturday, May 2, 2026

Lifetime prisoners in Georgia demand fixed terms and better conditions

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Rally in Kobuleti (Interpressnews photo)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Family members and relatives of 55 prisoners with life sentence who claim being on hunger strike during almost a month, rallied on Sunday outside notorious Gldani No 8 jail in Tbilisi outskirts, demanding reducing their terms and better conditions for inmates.

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Free Democrats: No deal with Saakashvili party

“I would not comment seriously on Baron Münchausen’s statements,” Irakli Alasania responded to Mikheil Saakashvili’s TV interview. (DF Watch.)

Tbilisi, DFWatch -After exchanging barrels of criticism, Georgia’s two main pro-western political parties deny likelihood of future political alliance.

At least one of them, Free Democrats of the former defense minister Irakli Alasania,

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Georgian diplomat casts doubt on NATO membership goal

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Zurab Abashidze said it’s not on the agenda today or tomorrow for Georgia to join NATO. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A statement by a Georgian diplomat makes many ask whether the country’s foreign policy has changed.

Russian relations special envoy Zurab Abashidze was answering a warning by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday, that Russia

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Ukraine's ambassador to Georgia defends Saakashvili appointment

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Ukraine’s Ambassador to Georgia Vasyl Tsybenko. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Ukraine’s ambassador to Georgia on Monday defended his country’s appointment of Georgian officials who ex-President Saakashvili as an adviser, after being called in to the Foreign Ministry in Tbilisi.

Saakashvili is wanted in four criminal

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Georgia asks Ukraine to extradite Saakashvili

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Mikheil Saakashvili. (Maestro.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has asked Ukraine to extradite ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili and ex Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili. Both are working for the Kiev government despite being charged with a number of crimes in their home country.

The Prosecutor

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Tbilisi summons Ukraine's ambassador about Saakashvili appointment

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Mikheil Saakashvili was last week appointed adviser to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia has summed the Ukrainian ambassador to explain why ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, who is wanted in his home country, has been appointed to a high position in Kiev.

Ambassador Vasyl Tsybenko was asked to come to the

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South Ossetia to sign treaty with Russia on Feb 18

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Davit Sanakoyev. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian breakaway region South Ossetia plans to sign a ‘treaty of alliance and integration’ with Russia on February 18.

This follows the signing of a similar treaty between the de facto government of the other breakaway region Abkhazia

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