
Georgian court acquits protester Giorgi Akhobadze of drug charges
Doctor Giorgi Akhobadze said police planted drugs on him after he left a protest against the government.
Doctor Giorgi Akhobadze said police planted drugs on him after he left a protest against the government.
The organisation has said that the authorities planted drugs on protesters to discredit the protest movement.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s first cousin, DJ Izzatkhanim Javadova, is accused of organising a drug-fueled party in a luxury villa near Athens.
Activists deported back to Azerbaijan are at a constant risk of being detained on drug charges or accused of other criminal acts.
Azerbaijani activist sentenced to three years in prison on drug charges0:00/2:111× On Thursday, Azerbaijani activist Ilhamiz Guliyev was sentenced to three years in prison for the acquisition and storage of large quantities of drugs without the intent to sell. He has claimed the charges were used to punish him after he accused Azerbaijani police in an interview of planting drugs on activists. Guliyev was originally arrested on 6 December 2023 on charges of large-scale drug trafficking. Accordi
A Brazilian national has died on the way to the hospital after customs officials at Yerevan’s airport reportedly forced him to drink from a bottle of alcohol he had brought into the country. The incident, which occurred on 8 August, was first reported on by tabloid media. ‘Instead of checking the contents of the bottle, the customs officials forced the Brazilian to drink it, after which he suddenly felt sick and died minutes later’, the news read. Armenia’s Chair of the State Revenue Comm
Recent CRRC Georgia data suggests that drug use is still heavily stigmatised in Georgia, with many Georgians preferring to have neighbours with criminal records rather than drug users. Drugs have been slowly but surely finding their way into the everyday lives of Georgians for years now; in 2020 alone, CRRC Data suggested that drug users in Georgia, at a very minimum, spent $1.5 million on drugs through the dark web between February and August. And yet, data from CRRC Georgia’s Caucasus Baro