Georgia’s Parliament on Tuesday passed a controversial proposal to reintroduce the crime of treason into the country’s criminal law in its second reading. The initiative, which adds Article 307¹ to the Criminal Code, was approved by 85 votes in favo...
MPs from the ruling Georgian Dream party have introduced a new draft law aimed at strengthening the social security of the Public Defender and employees within the Public Defender’s Office. The proposed legislation seeks to extend social security gu...
The United States is expecting responses from Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, on several key issues, political analyst Zurab Batiashvili said on Tuesday. Batiashvili further claimed that Washington’s priorities over Georgia had been made cle...
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Monday claimed that former President Mikheil Saakashvili’s return to Georgia in 2021 was orchestrated by Ukrainian military intelligence. In a social media post, Papuashvili said “a few days before h...
Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili has reiterated her country’s vision of transforming the Black Sea into a strategic bridge connecting Georgia and the European Union, calling for increased investments to realize the goal, Georgia’s foreig...
David Zurabishvili, a political scientist, on Tuesday accused the country’s “de facto leader”, Bidzina Ivanishvili, of treating Georgia as his personal domain, shaping foreign policy decisions based on his own power interests. Zurabishvili claimed t...
The Ministry of Education, Science, and Youth of Georgia has issued a statement addressing claims made by a representative of the opposition party “Strong Georgia” regarding the role of data protection officers in public schools. According to the op...
The leader of Georgia’s parliamentary majority, Mamuka Mdinaradze, has defended the recent seizure of several NGO bank accounts, stating there is no reason to doubt the prosecutor’s findings. He argued that both evidence and personal observations ali...
The ruling Georgian Dream party has agreed to introduce mandatory treatment as a form of punishment under the country’s Criminal Code, but only in exceptional cases, the party’s Executive Secretary Mamuka Mdinaradze announced. According to Mdinaradz...
Georgia’s Public Defender has described the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) report on the country’s new protest legislation as highly critical, highlighting concerns that the amendments contradict international human ...
