Thursday, March 19, 2026

Refugees picketed Saakahsvili's annual speech to parliament

Refugees have organized to get the attention of authorities. Resettlement plans are just not working, and refugees are coming back to Tbilisi, after failing to settle in in the village where they were forced to move. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili was not only confronted with objections to his rule inside the parliament building Tuesday. On the outside, people had gathered, banging pots with spoons in protest against his eight years leading the former

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Young lawyers win suit against secret wiretapping powers

Tamar Khidasheli and Georgian Young Lawyer's Association won a suit against Georgia's parliament, arguing that a section of the law gave prosecutors the right to do secret wiretapping without court approval. The Constitutional Court agreed and found the law unconstitutional. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Constitutional Court has decided that parliament did not have the right to give prosecutors powers to conduct secret wiretappings.

Tamar Khidasheli and Georgian Young Lawyers Association filed a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court regarding

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Saakashvili recommends mud bath to opponent, leaves debate

Opposition MP Jondi Baghaturia accused the family of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili of business lobbying. Saakashvili interrupted him, offered to order Baghaturia a round of treatment at his father's therapeutic mud bath, and then left the room for several minutes. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – There were tough exchanges in the Georgian parliament yesterday, with President Mikheil Saakashvili at one point leaving the room after recommending an opponent to take a therapeutic mud bath to get rid of his delusions.

The situation became so heated that

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