Police in Georgia have arrested 12 Turkish citizens wanted by Turkish authorities on serious and organised crime charges, officials said on Wednesday. Irakli Dondoladze, deputy head of the Central Criminal Police Department, said the detentions foll...
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has arrested three additional suspects in connection with the March 15 murder of businessman Levan Jangveladze on Chavchavadze Avenue in Tbilisi. Charges will also be filed in absentia against two individuals cu...
The Tbilisi Court of Appeals has upheld the verdict of the first-instance court, keeping “Lelo – Strong Georgia” leader Mamuka Khazaradze in prison. According to Giorgi Sioridze, a member of the party’s political council, the court complied with the...
An expert from the Samkharauli Forensic Bureau testified on Tuesday at Tbilisi City Court that no traces of drugs were found in the hair sample taken from pro-European activist Nika Katsia. Maia Kutgashvili, who conducted the analysis, said the exam...
Georgia’s Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of former Co-Investment Fund chief Giorgi Bachiashvili, rejecting his appeal against a prison sentence over the alleged misappropriation of cryptocurrency belonging to ruling party founder and form...
Georgia has deported 34 foreign nationals following a series of coordinated operations targeting illegal migration, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. Those expelled were citizens of India, Russia, Nigeria, Iran, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan,...
A Tbilisi court has sentenced pro-European activist Anatoli Gigauri to two years in prison for slapping a police officer during a protest, in a case his lawyer insists was self-defence. The verdict, delivered on Tuesday by Judge Jvibe Nachkebia, rec...
Lawyer Tornike Miginieshvili says a complaint has been filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on behalf of 19 journalists in connection with the protests that took place in 2023 during the first adoption of Georgia’s so-called “agents l...
The lawyer for Giorgi Bachiashvili, the former head of Georgia’s Co-Investment Fund and personal financier of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder and honorary chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday claimed prosecutors were using the so-call...
Police in Georgia have arrested two men on suspicion of large-scale drug offences following operations in the Imereti region of western Georgia. The Interior Ministry said on Monday officers from Zestaponi and Samtredia police departments had detain...
