Sunday, August 17, 2025

Parliament will consider making it a crime to offend religious feelings

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Eka Beselia, head of the human rights committee. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia might bring in a new law that makes it a crime to offend ‘religious feelings’.

A member of parliament from the ruling Georgian Dream coalition has submitted a bill in parliament which was supported by the human rights committee.

The bill

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Man arrested in Tbilisi for stealing computer from mosque

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The theft took place in this Tbilisi mosque. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police Friday detained a suspect who allegedly robbed a mosque in Tbilisi.

The suspect, a 22 year old man, secretly snuck into a mosque in the old part of Tbilisi and stole a computer from a room used by Mullahs, and then went into hiding, according to the Interior Ministry.

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