Sunday, December 7, 2025

Call for Georgian leaders to be banned in the West

Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili is one of the Georgian leaders that activists want banned in Western countries following the prisoner abuse scandal. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Groups in Georgia demands that the former prison minister, former interior minister, current justice minister and current chief prosecutor are banned from civilized countries because of their cruel and inhuman treatment of citizens.

The appeal

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Waiting outside, supporting those inside

People with relatives inside Gldani prison are getting moral support from students. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – “I bet daddy can see me here,” a boy of about 12 told her grandmother, both standing on a small hill in front of Prison No 8. It was evening and beginning to get dark. His grandmother was counting cell windows, as she knew the cell number where

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Ivanishvili's campaign surges after abuse scandal

Over fifty thousand people turned up to listen to Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili's first campaign speech after the prisoner abuse scandal. (GD photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the government’s main competitor in the election in just over a week says that he has plans to solve the conflicts of Georgia’s breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili says first, rail and road

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Prison guards who tortured have not been removed

Gldani prison has been under siege since Tuesday night after revelations of prisoner abuse. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Prison employees who committed torture and humiliating abuse in a Tbilisi prison are still going to work as normal, inmates say.

Prisoners at Gldani prison told this to journalists who were let in. They named the names of specific persons who have

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Looking for loved ones in the prison of shame

Day and night since the scandal broke, people with loved ones serving time in Gldani prison have been waiting for their turn to visit. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Galina Nemsitsveridze waited outside the entrance hall of Gldani prison on Friday, like hundreds of other people trying to see their sons and husbands.

Galina’s son was suspected of sexually abusing his future wife together with two persons and put

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Police beat and arrested demonstrators

From the first night of demonstrations against prisoner abuse September 18, 2012, outside the old Philharmonic, now known as Tbilisi Concert Hall. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Saturday, a crowd of demonstrators tried to move in on a public service building in Tbilisi as President Mikheil Saakashvili was inside attending the opening ceremony.

But police blocked the road and prevented people outraged over recent revelations

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Prisoner said he was beaten after shakeup

A prisoner said he was beaten by the head of the prison in Rustavi, south of Tbilisi, on September 19. The photo shows Gldani, where the filmed abuse took place. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The first new story of prisoner abuse has surfaced after President Saakashvili began a major shakeup of Georgia’s prison system.

The attempt at “resetting” the prison reform comes after a wave of criticism following several videos showing

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