Saturday, January 17, 2026

Prison Ministry asks inmates to end hunger strike

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Nana Kakabadze from the organization Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prison Ministry in Georgia Saturday called on prisoners to put an end to a hunger strike that has been joined by 146 prisoners all across Georgia.

In Prison No 6 in Rustavi, 20 km away from the capital, about a hundred

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Saakashvili addressed Ukrainian pro-EU demonstrators

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Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili on Saturday addressed the protesters gathered in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

His speech to the movement which started two weeks ago, when President Viktor Yanukovich refused to sign an Association Agreement with the

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Increasing discrimination of religious minorities in Georgia

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A Jehova’s Witnesses book stand on Freedom Square, Tbilisi. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A human rights group claims there has been an increase in discrimination of religious minorities in Georgia in 2013.

On November 15, Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall, located in Upper Etseri, Samegrelo, West Georgia, was shot at twice.

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Georgia charges former deputy prosecutor with staging torture

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Davit Chkhatarashvili. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have detained a former deputy prosecutor and charged him with participating in filming videos of staged torture at a prison in Tbilisi.

The Prosecutor’s Office charges Davit Chkhatarashvili, the former first deputy of ex-Chief

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Georgia to not send officials, only athletes to Sochi Olympics

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Figure skater Elene Gedevanishvili and three other Georgian athletes are participating in the Sochi Winter Olympics in less than two months. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian athletes will participate in the Sochi Winter Olympics, but the country will not send an official government delegation.

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said a few days ago in an interview with Russia Today that only Georgian athletes

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Georgian wine-making technique listed as world heritage

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Kvevri, a ceramic vessel buried in the ground, where wine is made the traditional way. (UNESCO.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s age-old method for making wine is now listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.

On its eighth session, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Non-Material Cultural Heritage decided to list Georgia’s traditional

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Georgia to hold local elections in June 2014

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Davit Berdzenishvili from the Georgian Dream coalition. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The local elections in Georgia will be held in June 2014, instead of May, the parliamentary majority says.

The last local elections were held on May 30, 2010. Davit Berdzenishvili from the Georgian Dream coalition said on Friday that the local

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Georgian patriarch against local government reform

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Ilia II, Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian parliament has postponed the adoption of a landmark bill that will drastically change local government, after the draft Self-Governance Code was harshly criticized by the influential head of the Georgian Church.

The bill should have been

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