TBILISI, DFWatch–Three employees at the Public Defender’s office in Georgia have resigned, and two have been fired, after disagreement over a visit to former prison minister Bacho Akhalaia in jail.
Marina Gigineishvili, Amiran Nikolaishvili and Guram Bendiashvili,
TBILISI, DFWatch — Ucha Nanuashvili has been chosen as Georgia’s new ombudsman.
The 38 year old lawyer has more than 15 years of experience as a human rights worker and is currently director of the non-governmental organization Human Rights Center.
Mr Nanuashvili’s
TBILISI, DFWatch — The majority in parliament has picked a former employee of Transparency International as candidate for ombudsman.
Nina Khatiskatsi was fired by TI Georgia shortly before the parliamentary election, allegedly for political reasons.
Who will fill
TBILISI, DFWatch — Society for a better Society organized a meeting between three candidates for ombudsman in front of students at Tbilisi State University on November 5, 2012.
Each candidate had 15 minutes to talk about their views and future plans.
The rights
TBILISI, DFWatch — Thursday parliament will approve the new government presented by the Georgian Dream coalition.
Parliament might also approve the new public defender, whose candidacy has been subject to discussion since the election result first became known.
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association (GYLA) and other non-governmental organizations have proposed to the parliament that Tamar Gurchiani should be the new public defender.
“We, the members of non-governmental organizations,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Thursday appointed the public defender as prison minister.
Former prison minister Khatuna Kalmakhelidze resigned yesterday amidst a scandal spurred by the release of five videos showing prisoners being beaten
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Public Defender on Thursday presented his annual report on human rights in the country.
Among the most important problems is conditions in the prison and penitentiary system in Georgia, where human rights are often violated, according to
Despite the fact that the Ministry of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance declared the reform of the penitentiary health care as one of the priority directions and carried our measures in this area, health care in prisons still remains the Achilles’ heel of Georgia’s penitentiary system. The situation is made difficult by the disproportionate distribution … Read more