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Georgian actor sentenced to 8 years on drug charges

23 January 2018 by OC Media

Giorgi Gior­ganashvili (Facebook)

Tbilisi City Court sentenced actor Giorgi ‘Bakhala’ Gior­ganashvili to eight years in prison on 23 January on drug charges. Gior­ganashvili had claimed that police had planted the drugs on him. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: activism, activist, beka tsikarishvili, civil society, drug policy, georgia, giorgi giorganashvili, human rights, protest, white noise movement

Parliamentary hearing on drug liberalisation postponed

28 November 2017 by OC Media

Dare decrim­i­nal­iza­tion (White Noise Movement)

Par­lia­men­tary hearings around Georgia’s drug decrim­i­nal­i­sa­tion bill, scheduled to take off on 28 November, have been postponed. The move has prompted anger amongst the authors of the bill and drug policy activists. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: activism, activist, beka tsikarishvili, civil society, drug policy, georgia, human rights, protest, white noise movement

Georgia’s ‘war against the people’ and the war against a ‘system that stinks’

27 November 2017 by Dato Parulava

(Andrew Tabatadze)

Georgia, a country where every third prisoner is serving time for drugs, may be about to transform its strict drug policy into a far more liberal system. Activists and reformers are hoping that new leg­is­la­tion could change Georgia’s system away from what they call ‘the war against the people’. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: activism, activist, beka tsikarishvili, civil society, drug policy, georgia, human rights, protest, white noise movement

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