GALI, DFWatch–As Abkhazia’s breakaway authorities are planning to end the use of specially issued ‘passports’ by the end of 2018, the Georgian minority here are facing new bureaucratic hurdles and further discrimination.
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Georgia charges one person with terrorism for posting threat on Facebook
TBILISI, DFWatch–One person has been charged with terrorism in Georgia for allegedly using social media to advocate the hostage taking of the Armenian ambassador.
Saakashvili convicted of ordering parliamentarian's beating in 2005
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Thursday found former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili guilty of ordering the beating of a parliamentarian in 2005.
Saakashvili was sentenced to six years in prison and stripped of his right to hold government
Breakaway South Ossetia asks Georgia for 11th Century icon
TBILISI, DFWatch–Separatists in South Ossetia have repeated a call to Georgia to hand over an 11th Century icon currently being kept in the National Museum in Tbilisi.
Representatives of the breakaway republic raised the issue during
Georgian asylum seekers to Europe down 13% in April
TBILISI, DFWatch–The number of Georgians who sought asylum in Schengen countries dropped 13 percent in April, compared to the month before, but the small Caucasus nation is still over-represented.
Despite a modest population of 3.7 million, Georgia still ranks among
Abkhazia halts issuing of ‘visas’ during FIFA World Cup
GALI, DFWatch–Sokhumi has suspended the issuing of ‘visas’ which is needed by many Georgians to visit family and do business here in the southern Gali region of the breakaway republic.
Georgia indicts two South Ossetian officials for Tatunashvili's torture and murder
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has indicted two South Ossetian officials for involvement in the abduction and torture of a Georgian former soldier in Akhalgori, an enclave under control of the breakaway region.
Davit Gurtsiev, the head of de facto security body in Akhalgori,
Breakaway Sokhumi plans to import Abkhazians from Middle East to shift demographics
GALI, DFWatch–Breakaway authorities in Sokhumi plan to invite ethnic Abkhazians in the Middle East to come and settle in the southern Gali and northern Gagra districts.
The scheme will shift the demographics in parts of the disputed territory where the Abkhazians are not
19 detained in Tbilisi as protests resume in wake of controversial teen murder investigation
TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of Georgia’s largest opposition party UNM was among 19 people detained on Monday as street protests resumed against a murder investigation.
Authorities came down hard on organizers as the rallies resumed Monday as a deadline set by protesters