Almost a year ahead of the 2020 parliamentary elections, disinformation campaign is getting traction on Facebook and one of its primary targets are civil society organizations and activists. These organized campaigns illustrate that anonymous actors ...
ISFED and TI recommendations, 2019
We would like to respond to an initiative presented by the political party "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia", which was announced by Archil Talakvadze, the Speaker of the Parliament, during the public discussion of the draft constitutional amendm ...
Quality of elections can be evaluated based on a number of criteria, including electoral dispute resolution process and analysis of whether this process allows to effectively react to electoral violations. Importance of electoral disputes may sometim ...
On 22 August 2019, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, within the framework of the Khazaradze-Japaridze case, indicted businessman Avtandil Tsereteli, whose family owns an independent TV company – TV Pirveli. The questionable ...
On August 5 and 6, a meeting of the electoral reform working group was held to discuss initiatives prepared by the ruling party about amendments to the Law of Georgia on Political Associations and the Election Code. We would like to comment on the le ...
We, the undersigned organizations, want to express our concern about the staff changes in Rustavi 2 TV that were announced and carried out by its new owner. Paata Salia, the new General-Director of Rustavi 2 TV, dismissed Nodar Meladze, the Head of T ...
For several weeks now, the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been investigating the incident that took place during the rally held outside Parliament on 20-21 June 2019 on the grounds of organisation of and pa ...