The court has, at this point, heard the cases of only 12 of the 37 demonstrators who were arrested at the protest of November 18. Ten of them were sentenced to administrative detention, one was fined, and one was given a verbal warning. The judge was ...
Since the constitutional draft law, initiated for complete shift to the proportional elections in the Parliament of Georgia by 2020, has failed to be adopted, the protesters in Georgia demanded a modification of the current mixed electoral system acc ...
In light of the ongoing tense political developments in the country, we are calling on the government: To reject the use of any type of force against the demonstrators and avoid the escalation of the situation, which could potentially result in a st ...
Dear President Stanishev, Dear Secretary-General Post, We, the undersigned representatives of the Georgian civil society organizations and civic activists, would like to address you at this important moment in the history of modern Georgia and urge y ...
Today the Parliament of Georgia downvoted the draft constitutional amendments that envisaged holding the upcoming parliamentary elections in 2020 through a fully proportional election system. The decision of the Georgian Dream to backtrack on their k ...
Today, on November 13, the Parliament of Georgia will be voting on first reading on a constitutional amendments bill that envisages holding the 2020 Parliamentary elections under a fully proportional system. Developments that took place on a plenary ...
On June 12, 2019 the bill known as the fourth wave of judicial reforms was submitted to the Parliament. The Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary considers that, among the changes, the specification of grounds for disciplinary respo ...
The civic platform No to Phobia responds to the events unfolded on 8 November 2019 regarding the premiere of the film "And Then We Danced". We believe that the measures taken by law-enforcement authorities were not sufficient to prevent the actions ...