Daily Archives: June 21, 2013

Russian border guards detain Georgian near South Ossetia

By | June 21st, 2013|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border guards have detained two more locals on the de facto border with South Ossetia while several people detained during the last few weeks still remain in detention. According to locals, armed Russian border guards took Zaza Khidasheli […]

The State’s Role in the May 17 Incident

By | June 21st, 2013|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

Tamta Mikeladze is strategic litigations lawyer at Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association. The May 17 incident and its subsequent developments should be discussed in two paradigms: the legal and the socio-cultural. The legal aspect relates to the state, whereas the socio-cultural is linked to society, in particular the existing social and cultural structures. […]

Protest against parliament’s handling of anti LGBT violence

By | June 21st, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

Parliament’s human rights committee has cast doubt on the authenticity of a petition signed by 12 000 people asking for accountability for the violence last month. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–June 20 a protest rally was held at Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel while parliament’s human rights committee was holding a meeting inside. A few days ago, the committee presented a draft statement about the events of May 17, when radical clerics and […]

GYLA asks government to regulate public bonuses

By | June 21st, 2013|Categories: NGO news|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) claims that there is no legal act that regulates the procedures for awarding bonuses within state agencies. GYLA has studied data from Georgian ministries, the government chancellery, the presidential […]