Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard has voiced her concern about the recent detention of Georgian opposition leaders Nika Melia and Zurab Japaridze. In a statement posted on social media platform X, Stenergard said: > "I am worried by ...
Romanian Member of the European Parliament and ALDE Vice-President Dan Barna has voiced deep concern over what he described as a “crackdown” in Georgia following the arrest of Nika Melia, a leader of the Coalition for Change. In a statement posted o...
Georgian journalist Natia Gogsadze of Mtavari Arkhi has been fined 5,000 Georgian lari (about $1,800) by Tbilisi City Court for allegedly blocking the road during a protest on February 2, 2025. The ruling was delivered today by Judge Lela Tsagareish...
A courtroom session in Georgia’s capital was abruptly halted on Friday after Nika Melia, co-chairman of the opposition Ahali party, threw water at the presiding judge while recounting his alleged kidnapping. The incident unfolded at the Tbilisi City...
A Georgian student has been sentenced to 12 days in prison after a confrontation with a ruling party MP, in what critics say is part of a broader clampdown on free expression. Tbilisi City Court Judge Davit Tereuli on Friday handed down the sentence...
The lawyer of Nika Melia, a key opposition leader from the Coalition for Change, has condemned his client’s detention as an unlawful and violent act, calling it a “criminal offense” carried out by Georgian law enforcement. “Several police officers —...
Nika Melia, a prominent opposition leader from the Akhali party and the Coalition for Change, has been detained under unclear circumstances, according to statements from his party and legal representatives. Melia was reportedly apprehended near Lisi...
Georgian Airways has issued a statement rejecting allegations made in court by Giorgi Bachiashvili, former head of Georgia’s Co-Investment Fund, who claimed he was kidnapped abroad and forcibly returned to Georgia aboard one of the airline’s aircraft...
Giorgi Bachiashvili, a former head of Georgia’s Co-Investment Fund and a central figure in the so-called Bitcoin case involving Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire founder and honorary chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, has alleged in court t...
Seven individuals have been arrested in Georgia's eastern Kakheti region after police seized a cache of illegal firearms, ammunition, and a substantial quantity of narcotics, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) announced on Thursday. T...
