Friday, December 5, 2025

Parliament asks to investigate violations during Saakashvili

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A student demonstrates against Saakashvili outside Tbilisi State University in the aftermath of the prisoners abuse scandal in September 2012. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In Georgia, the parliament has asked the government to investigate crimes committed during the Saakashvili regime.

The bureau of parliament on Friday recommended the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor’s Office

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Georgian premier blasts former ruling party on RT

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Irakli Gharibashvili, Georgia’s Prime Minister. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has strongly criticized the former ruling party, the National Movement, in an interview on Russia Today, the state-owned Russian television station.

It’s a bit difficult to understand the opposition, they

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Tbilisi displays divided views of Saakashvili's legacy

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Many were pleased with the speech President Saakashvili held at the UN recently. (Saakashvili’s Facebook page.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili was given a hero’s welcome at Tbilisi airport Sunday, but outside the old parliament building protesters burnt an effigy of him.

A crowd greeted Saakashvili as he arrived at the airport on Sunday night. They said that the

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Former prisoners demand Supreme Court chair's resignation

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Demonstrators in Batumi don’t want any ‘cohabitation’ between the Saakashvili regime and the current government. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former political prisoners and refugees from Abkhazia held a rally in Batumi on Sunday outside the prosecutor’s office in Adjara to demand the arrest of Supreme Court Chairman Kote Kublashvili and the dismissal of Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili.

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