Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Airing of edited Robakidze video condemned

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Outside the Rustavi 2 studio building Thursday. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The public defender and several major non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Georgia condemn Rustavi 2 TV for airing the footage of the 2004 police raid which killed a teenager.

The Robakidze incident has been in the focus of the public interest

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OSCE to study trials of ex officials in Georgia

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Chiora Taktakishvili, one of the activists who argue that the case against Bacho Akhalaia is politically motivated. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Wednesday started a monitoring of the trials against former government officials in Georgia.

According to the OSCE webpage, the monitoring started with the pretrial hearing of Bacho

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Controversial trial postponed again

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Bacho Akhalaia in Tbilisi City Court Feb. 20, 2013. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A trial drawing great public attention against former government officials was again rescheduled for February 28 by Tbilisi City Court on Wednesday.

Tbilisi City Court held pretrial hearing for Bacho Akhalaia, a Saakashvili loyalist and former

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Georgia to build new mosque in Batumi

People in Tbilisi protesting against construction of Aziz Mosque in Batumi. (DFWatch photo)

Tbilisi, DFWatch – Georgia has found a solution to a controversy concerning a planned mosque in Batumi, a city on the Black Sea coast.

Locals have been outraged over the plans, as it should have been named after the historic Turkish leader Aziz. Now, the government

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