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State security service rejects presence of its employees at parliament as “fake”
The Georgian state security service on Monday rejected the presence of its employees at the parliament building as “fake”, in response to the opposition’s claims that the government had called the agency’s staff to ensure its “own security” amid prot...
29 arrested for protesting foreign agents bill remain in custody
Twenty-nine individuals who were arrested on Thursday for hooliganism and disobedience to law enforcement officers while protesting the foreign agents bill still remain in custody, lawyers said on Friday. Initially police arrested 36 at the parl...
Tbilisi Court of Appeals denies ex-Pres. Saakashvili’s release on medical grounds
Tbilisi Court of Appeals on Thursday denied former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s transfer abroad on health grounds, following the same verdict by Tbilisi City Court early in February. Lawyers, who claim the former official is in “urgent need o...
3 stabbed in Lagodekhi municipality
Three individuals were stabbed in Georgia’s eastern Lagodekhi municipality on Wednesday, with a verbal dispute preceding the incident, local media reported. All victims have been transported to a nearby hospital. Their condition is stable, docto...
Lawyer claims suspect in bank attack “forced” to evade him
Lawyer Aleksandre Kobaidze on Wednesday said Badri Esebua, a suspect in a high-profile bank attack case in 2020, had been “forced” to evade him. Kobaidze claimed Esebua had “asked him pardon” for the move and told him “he was forced” to raise su...
Interior minister briefs parliament on his office’s work in 2022
Georgian interior minister Vakhtang Gomelauri on Tuesday briefed the country’s state legislature on his office’s work last year. In his speech, Gomelauri pointed to the “unprecedentedly high” rate of crime-solving that had been illustrated by the f...
Prosecutor’s office aggravates charges against suspects in Tbilisi electrocution incident killing one
The Georgian chief prosecutor’s office on Friday aggravated charges against the director and employees of “Greenservice+”, as well as the director and an expert of “Mshen-expert”, the companies involved in the renovation process, in a central Tbilisi...
Georgia plans to tighten security measures after reported explosion of naval mine in Batumi
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Tuesday said it planned to tighten security measures and install special barriers following the explosion in the country’s western city of Batumi on Monday, that reportedly was a naval mine, linked with the ongoing R...
Turkey earthquake
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Zugdidi bank attacker in 2020, Badri Esebua arrested
Georgian law enforcers have arrested Badri Esebua, a Zugdidi Bank of Georgia Bank attacker in the country’s western Samegrelo region in October 2020, who escaped with half a million dollars. The interior ministry said the offender was arrested in ...
