ISFED expresses concern over unfounded detention of its representative in the Marneuli Municipality on February 8 and the use of law enforcement as a weapon against a civic activist. On February 8, Razhan Ziadaliev protested against the patrol polic ...
An open letter of Georgian civil society organizations to: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon ...
The backsliding of democracy in Georgia over the recent period has come under the spotlight by international organizations and representatives of countries friendly to Georgia. Backing out on the promise to adopt a proportional system, the formation ...
After electing the previous Independent Inspector as a Supreme Court justice, the High Council of Justice (HCOJ) announced a competition for selecting the new Independent Inspector.[1] The period of December 17 through December 26 was set for submitt ...
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy strongly criticizes the bill of amendments to the Election Code of Georgia, initiated in the Parliament of Georgia by the Central Election Commission (CEC) and the parliamentary legal affairs ...
On December 12, the Parliament of Georgia confirmed Shalva Tadumadze, at the time Prosecutor General, for the position of a Supreme Court judge. In cases where the Prosecutor General’s authority is terminated prior to the completion of his ter ...
The under-signatory CSOs believe that the January 2, 2020 crime committed against Murad Tsurtsumia, 24 years-old young man, must be investigated by the State Inspector’s Service. Therefore, we call on the State Inspector, to use her authority ...
On December 20, social networking site Facebook removed 418 accounts from its platform for coordinated inauthentic behavior, including 344 pages, 13 groups, 39 profiles and 22 Instagram accounts. Facebook’s investigation found that people ...