Georgia
Georgia Prosecutor’s Office accused of working with Facebook smear page
On 10 October, Eduard Marikashvili, a lawyer at the rights group Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI), accused the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of cooperating with a Facebook smear group. An image of Eduard Marikashvili allegedly taken by an employee of the Prosecutor’s Office ended up as a smear photo on a Facebook page that targets government critics. That day, Marikashvili was at the hearing of the Supreme Court justice nominee Shalva Tadumadze, currently Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor. Durin
