Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs marked the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking with a high-level event in Tbilisi, reaffirming the government’s commitment to an “uncompromising fight” against drug-related offences. Mi...
United National Movement member Ana Tsitlidze has called on Georgia’s opposition parties to shift their focus away from forthcoming local elections and instead concentrate on mobilising public resistance against what she described as a regime that “v...
Norway has called on the Georgian government to release individuals it described as “unjustly detained” during pro-European protests sparked by the Georgian Dream authorities’ decision late last year to delay the country’s integration into the bloc u...
Georgian Vice Speaker of Parliament Thea Tsulukiani has responded to international sanctions imposed on her and other members of the ruling Georgian Dream party for alleged democratic backsliding, calling the measures “ridiculous” and attributing the...
The international situation is becoming increasingly unpredictable - marked by the 12-day Iran-Israel confrontation in the Middle East, the active involvement of the United States, and parallel preparations for the NATO Hague Summit, which is expecte...
US Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Roger Wicker, Chair of the US Helsinki Commission, issued a joint statement [https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/release/ranking-member-shaheen-senator-wic...
European Parliament Member Markéta Gregorová has issued a strong condemnation of the Georgian government's recent actions, warning that the situation in Georgia is “deteriorating alarmingly” and calling for a robust response from the European Union. ...
Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream, is pushing forward a new bill that significantly tightens restrictions on freedom of expression by criminalizing so-called “indecent behavior” and verbal “disrespect” toward judges — not only inside courtrooms ...
Tbilisi City Court Judge Arsen Kalatozishvili has ordered two months of pre-trial detention for acclaimed Georgian poet Zviad Ratiani, who was arrested near Parliament on June 23. The prosecution accuses Ratiani of assaulting a police officer. The d...
Tbilisi City Court has fined Levan Khabeishvili, Chairman of the United National Movement’s (UNM) political council, 4,000 GEL for a Facebook post deemed offensive toward ruling party lawmakers. Judge Manuchar Tsatsua announced the decision earlier ...
