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Five Members of Equality Institute Arrested
April 23, 2008
A Step Backwards: Judge Konstantine Kublashvili’s Order?
April 23, 2008
A commission was set up based on the resolution passed by the Chairperson of the Georgian Supreme Court. The Commission published “Guidelines and Recommendations”. Various lawyers think that these recommendations are intended to circumvent Georgian law.
Malkhaz Jangirashvili, Slim Attorney Freed from Detention
April 23, 2008
Political Motivated Spike in Murder Rate in East Georgia
April 23, 2008
Based on the official the statistics of the Prosecutor General’s Office the actual number of registered crimes has been significantly reduced. Moreover, it is officially reported that the number of grave and (especially grave crimes) has been very much reduced. In the same line of reporting, the number of solved crimes has actually increased. A total of 1,960 cases grave crimes were registered in November of 2006; 2007, 1 012 crimes were registered, which is through the month of November. The Prosecutor General’s Office reported that the number of grave offenses was also reduced in 2008. However, in spite of all the good news, such figures have not been confirmed by the experts who should know best.
Skinny Hunger-Striking Lawyer Arrested
April 23, 2008
“The detention is designed to our activities, end the protest, and block our struggle for freedom and to put back to sleep those lawyers who are now aware of the problems that we face. In spite of the fact that I am now sitting prison, or even if I was outside; I will still continue struggling in the effort to prove that my arrest is a completely stupid scenario and was designed as a provocation against us,” stated Malkhaz Jangirashvili, lawyer who was arrested on April 21st and now sits in a preliminary detention isolator cell.
Lawyers against Legislation Amendments
April 22, 2008
On January 17 2008 amendments were introduced to the Georgian Procedural Code. The new edition of the Article II, Paragraph V states the following: “Court shall not accept the suit from the administrative body unless the petitioner has had the opportunity to bring the administrative suit to the court only once, which has been envisaged under the General Administrative Code.” Lawyers aver that such amendments restrict their freedom to bring appeal cases to the court, and claim that the Georgian Constitution, as well as standards of international law is being circumvented, under the various amendments.
Police from Zugdidi Beat Sixty-Four-Year-Old Woman
April 18, 2008
Officers of the Zugdidi Department of the Interior Ministry beat Turfa Gvalia when she tried to find out why her son was detained. The police arrested the woman on a charge of hooliganism after she quarreled with them. According to the Zugdidi District Court’s decision Turfa Gvalia and her son were released from the court room on the same day on April 13 and administratively fined, Now Turfa Gvalia demands damages and that a medical examination be made of her state of health that as a direct result of the beating, and that a criminal investigation be launched against the responsible policemen. She wants them to be held fully accountable under the law. Otherwise she intends to start a hunger-strike in front of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office and to renounce Georgian citizenship.
Attorneys Demonstrating at the State Chancellery
April 18, 2008
Georgian Justice “Goes to the Dogs” -- “Hanging” Judiciary System
April 18, 2008
“I know you are innocent but I cannot help you, sorry. I advise you only one, never let the life to make you into a cruel person,” suggested Ivane Afridonidze, the Judge at the Kutaisi Appeal Court to Giorgi Tskhakaia, who was accused of robbery. The Appeal Court did not amend the initial verdict passed by the Tskaltubo District Court, and now Tskhakaia has been sentenced to nine-year-imprisonment for the crime he did committed.
Trial on Irakli Okruashvili Was Postponed for Two Months
April 17, 2008
Video Patrol vs. Human Rights
April 17, 2008
“Thanks to the patrol police,” – a phrase which has become famous after various TV projects were initiated by the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, very often we have heard how citizens are shout “do not shoot me with the camera” when the press service department of the Ministry prepares the latest action-packed TV program. We tried to find out whether human rights are breached when a person is caught on film without his/her permission even if s/he is a suspect being sought or arrested by patrol police.
Sozar Subari Protests Opened Letters of the Prisoners
April 16, 2008
Lawyers Suppressed Everywhere in Georgia, Regions too!
April 16, 2008
Recently, demonstrations of the lawyers in the capital and the one-month hunger strike of Malkaz Jangirashvili, the lawyer who wanted to draw public attention to the plight of justice in Georgia. Human Rights Centre interviewed lawyer Kakha Maghradze in order to find out the plight of attorneys in the Akhaltsikhe District.
Investigation Opens: High Ranking Official from Special Operative Department
April 11, 2008
The Prosecutor General’s Office ordered the Kakheti Region al Prosecutor’s Office to start an investigation against of high-ranking official of the Special Operative Department (SOD) based on published newspaper materials. A former official is accused of being involved in drug-dealing. The criminal case was launched under the Criminal Code Article 332, professional malfeasance negligence. The Prosecutor’s Office interrogated several people as witnesses. It is quite possible that Davit Legashvili, the head of the Kakheti Regional Department of the SOD will be arrested within the next several days.
Regime of Pink Terror: Member of the Egalitarian Institute Arrested in Batumi
April 11, 2008
On March 30 Jano Rizhvadze, member of the Egalitarian Institute and five other Georgian citizens were detained in Batumi. Members of the non-governmental organization told during a recent press conference that they consider that the real reason for their detention was because of their membership in the Egalitarian Institute.
Lawyers Request the Court to Release Prisoner for Heart Operation
April 10, 2008
Lawyers Started Strike in Front of Appeal and City Courts
April 7, 2008
Wanted Valeri Gelbakhiani Sent Appeal to Georgian Public Defender
April 2, 2008
Lawyer Demands Punishment of Deputy Head of Sighnaghi Police Department
March 31, 2008
“Cow Settlement” Reached at Imereti Region Executive Bureau
March 25, 2008
On March 24 2008 Durmishkhan Khurtsilava, Khoni District executor of the Imereti Region Executive Bureau, with the support of the Human Rights Center’s Imereti Office concluded forcible judgment based on a court verdict. The socially excluded family finally received justice after a protracted fight of five years.