Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Georgia charges missing ex justice minister with torture

Zurab Adeishvili left Georgia shortly after the election October 1, 2012, and has not returned since. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office has officially charged a former Justice Minister in absentia for abuse of power and being responsible for torturing prisoners.

Zurab Adeishvili, the former Justice Minister in Saakashvili’s government who

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$2 mill of emergency aid for 2008 war still stowed away

TV sets were among the aid found. The items were meant for refugees in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. (Photo published by the ministry.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Ministry of Refugees and Internally Displaced People has discovered five unregistered warehouses, where there were kept humanitarian aid which should have been distributed to refugees in 2008 and 2009.

The ministry on Friday published photos

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Amid crisis, Georgia moves to give president more powers

Davit Usupashvili, Speaker of Parliament. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The governing Georgian Dream coalition suggests bringing forward a planned reform to give the president power to immediately dissolve parliament and announce a new parliamentary election.

The powers are part of a package of constitutional

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Witness confirms Cartu Bank bankruptcy plot

Giorgi Isakadze, leader of the Small and Medium Enterprises Association. (Interpressnews.)

The leader of a business chamber in Georgia says he helped the previous government try to bankrupt Cartu Bank, which was owned by current Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Giorgi Isakadze, Chair of Georgia’s Small and Medium Enterprises Association,

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Fraud allegations against Saakashvili campaign rally

Mikheil Machavariani, former secretary general of the National Movement party. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia says public money was spent on campaign rallies for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement party last September, which is illegal, and that documents were falsified to cover it up.

The party

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