Monday, December 29, 2025

Ex minister returns to Georgia to face criticism

Bacho Akhalaia has returned to Georgia after going abroad after the October 1 2012 parliamentary election. "I am ready to answer every question regarding my activity," he writes on his Facebook page. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — A former government official seen by many as the main architect of the torture in Georgia’s prisons says he has returned after leaving the country shortly after the parliamentary election.

Bacho Akhalaia, who served as prison minister for three years, then defense minister for three

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Government claims growing prisoner unrest is staged

Prison Minister Sozar Subari says the situation in the prisons is the fault of the Saakashvili government and threatens to prosecute people demonstrating outside of prisons. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The unrest in Georgia’s prison system has spread to the most infamous facility in the country: Ksani prison north of Tbilisi.

At No 15 Facility, as it is officially called, thousands of prisoners have gone on hunger strike demanding that the recently appointed

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