TBILISI, DFWatch–After a man suspected of killing two policemen evaded arrest for almost a week, Georgia’s prime minister says that government will be ‘ruthless toward crime’.
The announcement came after several law-enforcement ministers have talked about tougher
TBILISI, DFWatch–Families and relatives of prisoners with life sentences and incurable diseases rallied in front of the government house in Adjara on Thursday.
They demand that the prisoners are offered a new chance to have their cases reviewed and their sentences
TBILISI, DFWatch–60 prisoners with life sentence are continuing their hunger strike to demand a new assessment of their cases.
The prisoners on lifelong term want to be included in a mass amnesty introduced by the new Georgian Dream coalition
TBILISI, DFWatch–At least 50 prisoners serving life sentences have gone on hunger strike to demand to benefit from a mass amnesty introduced in early 2013.
The prisoners want to change their life sentences into a set number of years, after which
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former prisoners and people on probation crowded outside President Mikheil Saakashvili’s palace in Tbilisi after he offered to pardon them and clear their criminal record.
The president said August 19 that people who are probationers or have
TBILISI, DFWatch–Most Georgians agree with a new constitutional amendment, which was recently passed and reduced the rights of the president.
People also support an initiative to reverse a decision to have parliament in the country’s second biggest city Kutaisi,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The number of prisoners in Georgia was reduced by 56.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, according to the Ministry of Corrections.
The number of prisoners has been a cause of alarm during the last years.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tengiz, a man now in his early sixties, was sentenced to 11 years in jail for burglary in 2007. December 7, 2012, he was pardoned by the president because of a difficult health condition after being recommended by Prison Minister Sozar Subari.
Two
TBILISI, DFWatch–The prisoner amnesty in Georgia ended its term of execution March 13. 8 322 prisoners were freed in total.
According to the Prison Ministry, about 800 cases are still pending review in court. Most of them are about charges of fraud, cases which
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is to speed up the transfer of Turkish prisoners to Turkey, to let them be closer to their family as they serve out the rest of their sentence.
The government wants to make it easier for people to care for a family member who is in prison,