TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s largest NGO coalition proposes an overhaul of the existing system for selecting a chief prosecutor in order to minimize the risk that one party takes the decision unilaterally.
The proposed bill comes in the wake of a two-week-long series of rallies in Tbilisi
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
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have arrested two young women implicated in the near fatal stabbing of a popular crooner.
Irakli Nozadze, nicknamed ‘Picasso’, was in a critical condition after major loss of blood after being stabbed multiple times in the chest and neck on Monday.
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
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia will probably receive American-made Stinger MANPADs, the defense minister has revealed.
Defense Minister Levan Izoria mentioned the new weapons acquisition during a confirmation hearing in parliament on Tuesday.
“Georgia will get, along with the Javelins,
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
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.
პროკურატურამ ცხინვალში მოკლული არჩილ ტატუნაშვილისა და კიდევ მისი ორი მეგობრის, ლევან ქიტოშვილისა და იოსებ პავლიაშვილის უკანონოდ დაკავებისა და შემდეგ ტატუნაშვილის ჯგუფურად წამებაში დახმარებისთვის, ოკუპირებული ცხინვალის რეგიონის ე.წ. სამართალდამცავი ორგანოს თანამშრომლებს
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,
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