TBILISI, July 1 – The body of a young Azerbaijani woman has been found in a rented apartment in Tbilisi, according to information reported by Interpressnews on Wednesday. The case was made public by Baia Pataraia, head of the women’s rights organization Sapari, who wrote about it on social media, Interpressnews reported. Pataraia wrote that … Read more
Tbilisi court on Tuesday found four men guilty of publicly assaulting and humiliating a young woman, the wife of their relative, which led to the woman’s suicide. For the crime that happened eight years ago, each of the defendants was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison. The case concerns the events of … Read more
TBILISI, DFWatch–A mother of four was found strangled in Tbilisi on Tuesday. Police suspect her ex-husband who was arrested soon after.
Miranda Vacheishvili (40) was apparently strangled with a lead wire.
She was living in an uptown district of the capital, and had complained
TBILISI, DFWatch–In the former Soviet republic Georgia, the Republican Party has proposed legislation that will make femicide a separate crime – a gender-based hate crime which is causing alarm in the country.
The Republicans, a party formed by Soviet dissenters in the 1970s,
TBILISI, DFWatch–75% of women who are murdered in Georgia were stalked by the murderer for 12 months prior to their death, according to a new report.
This shocking statistic appears in a new report by the feminist group Safari, which urges the government to use its new
TBILISI, DFWatch–A woman died in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region on Friday after being shot in the head by her ex-husband.
The incident happened as the man visited the victim’s house, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said on Saturday.
During an argument
TBILISI, DFWatch–The human rights committee in parliament on Monday rejected a proposal by two MPs from the majority faction to make femicide a crime.
It would have taken seven votes for the committee to approve the draft. Only three voted for it;
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two MPs from the parliamentary majority have proposed adding to the Criminal Code a separate offense called femicide, which is the premeditated murder of a woman on the basis of her gender.
The bill sets punishment
