TBILISI, July 30 – Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) has published a list of individuals it claims have been sanctioned by nine Western countries in recent years.
The group states that over 230 people affiliated with Georgian Dream (GD), including judges, prosecutors, members of parliament, government ministers, and security officials, have been subjected to visa bans or other travel restrictions. Of these, 138 names have been publicly disclosed.
According to TI Georgia, a civil society organization critical of the ruling GD party, sanctions have been imposed on Georgia by the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine in response to what the group describes as democratic backsliding and repression. The latest additions to the list reportedly include senior judiciary figures, the justice minister, the new prosecutor general, and the head of the country’s anti-corruption bureau.
The organization claims these individuals are involved in political repression, human rights violations, or undermining Georgia’s democratic institutions. However, the governments issuing these sanctions rarely provide detailed justifications, and many names remain undisclosed, making independent verification difficult.
GD officials have consistently rejected allegations of authoritarianism, arguing that the level of democracy is unchanged and that policies like the foreign agents law are aimed at maintaining independence from foreign interference. Government figures often characterize international criticism as politically motivated or driven by domestic opponents lobbying abroad.
The list presented by TI Georgia is not independently corroborated by the governments named in the report.
