Friday, April 24, 2026

Unconfirmed reports about prison raid in Tbilisi

Questioning the ombudsman. Human rights activist Nana Kakabadze suspects that the ombudsman's people lied about carrying out an inspection of Gldani prison late Friday night. No-one saw them entering or leaving, she says. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Friday evening there was a rush of postings on Facebook and Internet forums saying that a special unit had raided the prison in Gldani, in northern Tbilisi, beaten the prisoners, resulting on two deaths.

It started Friday evening when two Facebook

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Kristali director to face trial for chlorine leak

On this plot south of Tbilisi, chlorine leaked from a tank Tuesday evening, injuring about 80 people. (Photo: Londa Beria.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Chair of Kristali Ltd, the company responsible for a chlorine leak on Tuesday, was Friday sentenced to pre-trial detention.

July 3, a chlorine leak in the Lilo district of Tbilisi poisoned around 80 people.

Georgian Water Company said it was

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Reshuffle continues in Georgia's government

Georgia's Interior Ministry for seven years denied that Data Akhalaia was the head of the secret police, "Kudi", which has raided and interrogated the opposition. Now he is deputy in the defense ministry, where his brother used to be at the top.(IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The brother of Interior Minister Bacho Abkhalaia, Data Akhalaia, has been appointed to the post of deputy defense minister. He was head of the Interior Ministry’s Constitutional Security Department.

Data Akhalaia resigned after it became known

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Brussels is focusing on Georgia's internal politics

Alain Deletroz, Vice President of International Crisis Group, spoke to DF Watch about the situation in Georgia and the rest of the South Caucasus.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Brussels is mainly concentrating on what happens with Georgian reforms and internal politics. On Abakhazia and South-Ossetia, everybody thinks that for as long as Russia will recognize these two territories as independent states, there is not much

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Stalkers with cameras followed journalist for a week

Almost a dozen stalkers have been terrorizing journalist Eka Dugbaldze for a week. A strange 'exposé' apparently based on their footage was produced by pro-government online television iTV.ge. (Channel 9 screengrab.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – A journalist from an online media outlet financed by Channel 9 has been stalked for a week by a group of up to ten people with video cameras asking her weird questions.

Ekaterine Dugladze is a journalist at info9.ge, a new website financed by Channel 9,

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