Georgia’s Foreign Agent Law
Kobakhidze refuses to establish working group on foreign agent law
Berset’s statement follows his visit to Georgia in December.
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Georgia’s Foreign Agent Law
Georgian Dream says it ‘may not need’ foreign agent law
The ruling party’s parliamentary leader, Mamuka Mdinaradze, has cited US President Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily suspend foreign aid.
Georgia’s Foreign Agent Law
Georgian court sentences foreign agent law protester to five years in prison
Pridon Bubuteishvili, 20, was convicted of injuring a firefighter and damaging parliament’s gates during May’s foreign agent law protests.
Tkibuli Coal Mines
Tkibuli miners allege political dismissals amid company’s ‘reorganisation’
Up to 100 miners were dismissed in what the company has claimed is part of a retraining initiative.
Azerbaijan
Police detain remaining Meydan TV journalists in Azerbaijan
On Friday, Meydan TV’s Baku staff — Aynur Gambarova, who goes by the penname Elgunash, Natig Javadli, Aytaj Ahmadova, also known as Tapdig, Aysel Umudova, Khayala Aghayeva, and freelancer Ramin Jabrailzada, also known as Deko — were detained on charges of smuggling foreign currency. They were all remanded to the Baku City Police Station facing a common accusation, smuggling, which has repeatedly been used to detain journalists over the past year. Meydan TV’s editor, Orkhan Mammad, first
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Georgia’s students take their lectures to the streets
A group of students at Ilia State University (ISU) in Tbilisi have spontaneously come together to form a new student group in protest against the rigged parliamentary elections — with one form of protest including organising their lectures on the streets. On 19 November, the Iliauni Student Movement at Tbilisi’s most progressive university organised their first publicly visible initiative, taking the lead from Georgian writers Lasha Bughadze and Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, who delivered a ser
Democracy
ECHR registers case against Georgia’s foreign agent law
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has registered a case against the foreign agent law adopted amidst mass protests in Georgia, according to the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA). The controversial foreign agent law has been sent to the ECHR for review on behalf 136 civil organisations in Georgia, including GYLA, as well as four private Georgian citizens. On Wednesday, GYLA cited six separate articles of the European Convention on Human Rights that the law allegedly violat
