
Armenia
Georgia granted asylum to ‘25% of applicants in last six years’
In the last six years, 5,885 people registered for asylum in Georgia, only quarter of which were granted humanitarian or refugee status, data published by Institute for Development of freedom of Information (IDFI) indicates. In most cases proceedings were terminated by the applicants themselves (2,743), with 1,346 people being rejected. Data from 2012–2017 shows that the number of people requesting asylum in Georgia has been decreasing since 2014, when it reached a high of of 1,792 people.