TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office has presented a new charge against the former head of the military police for illegal deprivation of liberty and humiliating treatment.
Khatuna Paichadze, spokesperson for the Prosecutor’s Office, said Saturday that Megis
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four out of nineteen ministers appeared at the government session on Thursday with some kind of injury.
Journalists were surprised to see minister after minister arriving with a broken arm or a black eye.
Energy Minister Kakhi Kaladze, a former AC
TBILISI, DFWatch–The controversial restoration of Georgia’s historic Bagrati Cathedral has been awarded the international prize Domus Restoration and Conservation.
According to the jury, ‘the intervention of critical reintegration of Bagrati Cathedral, one of the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliament in Georgia on Friday decided to end the practice of mandatory consecutive sentence.
Following the amendments to the Criminal Law code and Criminal Law Procedure Code, the longer sentence absorbs the shorter one; what is called
TBILISI, DFWatch–In a moment resembling the publication of Obama’s birth certificate, Georgia’s justice minister Tuesday appeared on the Public Broadcaster’s Channel 1 holding up two of her university diplomas as proof that she has enough education for the position.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian parliament Thursday evening voted unanimously for a resolution that says the country aims to join the EU and NATO and defines the EU and the US as its ‘top strategic partners.’
This comes after a period in which President
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government accuses former officials during Saakashvili’s time in power of having embezzled state money in order to purchase luxurious cars and unnecessary apartments.
The apartments were discovered at military bases which are in a
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili’s proposed amnesty for financial crimes has been rejected in parliament, as it failed to garner support in any of the parliamentary committees.
At the plenary session Wednesday it emerged that representatives from
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishivli says that he and Chairman of the Supreme Court have not discussed the issue of impeaching the latter.
“We only spoke about how we should develop and go forward,” Ivanishivli says.
Kote Kublashvili has
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliament in Georgia today passed a law which allows filming and taking photographs inside courtrooms.
Also at today’s plenary session, parliamentarians decided to cancel fees for kindergartens and to separate the garbage fee from the