Friday, December 5, 2025

Lawmakers discussed how to destroy 'dirty archive'

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Deputy Chief Prosecutor Shota Rekhviashvili said the Prosecutor’s Office in 2012 asked the court 1 063 times for permission to conduct phone surveillance and as far as he remembers, in all cases the request was granted. (Ministry of Justice.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to partially destroy illegally recorded secret surveillance material in one week.

Deputy Interior Minister Levan Izoria said on Monday that this process will be conducted with the participation of society.

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Fear of surveillance must be eliminated, says Ivanishvili

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Editor in Chief of Rezonansi Lasha Tughushi (left), Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The new government is not conducting illegal surveillance of citizens, but the fear people have of being tracked should be eliminated, Prime Minister Bidzina Ivansihvili said on Monday.

Georgia’s National Platform of the Eastern Partnership, which

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Interior minister found his own phone had been tapped

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Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian interior minister says he has discovered audio files of all his phone calls for a whole year, secretly recorded and stored on computer disk.

Irakli Gharibashvili was Tuesday invited to the TV channel Rustavi 2 to sum up the government’s

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Political analyst suspects his apartment is bugged

Gia Khukhashvili is a frequent commentator on Maestro TV. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – An independent commentator in Georgia suspects there was installed surveillance equipment in his flat.

Gia Khukhashvili yesterday told journalists his neighbor from upstairs discovered a listening device and informed him.

“I haven’t seen it

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