Sunday, August 17, 2025

Interpol snubbed Georgian prosecutors in Adeishvili case

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Zurab Adeishvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Interpol did not ask Georgian prosecutors for additional information before deciding to call off the search for a former justice minister.

Yesterday, the story broke that Interpol no longer has a so-called red notice on its webpage seeking the arrest

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Georgia charges former deputy prosecutor with staging torture

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Davit Chkhatarashvili. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have detained a former deputy prosecutor and charged him with participating in filming videos of staged torture at a prison in Tbilisi.

The Prosecutor’s Office charges Davit Chkhatarashvili, the former first deputy of ex-Chief

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Ex prison minister questioned about torture, claims didn't know

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“Of course I didn’t know,” Khatuna Kalmakhelidze said on Friday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia Friday summoned the former prison and defense ministers to question them about the torture in the prisons during the Saakashvili regime.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, it has found, after a number

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Three detained as anger boils over outside Akhalaia trial

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Crowds awaiting the verdict in the case against Bacho Akhalaia. Many see him as responsible for the prison torture. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Three people were Tuesday detained at a rally outside Tbilisi City Court where the case against ex-minister Bacho Akhalaia went on.

In a few days, the court will announce its verdict in the final case against Akhalaia which deals with torture

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Ivanishvili criticizes prisoner abuse whistleblower walking free

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Most of the abuse took place at Gldani prison in Tbilisi, where the whistleblower Bedukadze used to work. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili criticizes the chief prosecutor for having freed a former prison guard from criminal responsibility for torturing prisoners because he blew the whistle on the scandal.

The whistleblower, Vladimer Bedukadze, was released

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