News from the Human Rights House in Tbilisi
Partly free press in Georgia
On May 1, authoritative international organization Freedom House released its 2012 annual report which evaluates the freedom of media worldwide based on the data collected throughout 2011. According to the report, Georgia registered progress and moved from 55 to 52 points. However, Georgia still occupies place among partly-free countries out of 197 states and territories and is still very close to 61 point limit which starts list of not-free states. 02 May 2012 »
Institutional Persecution of Lawyers in Georgia
Georgian Bar Association and human rights defenders protest institutional persecution of lawyers in Georgia. The parliamentary majority avoids speaking about it. Minority representative, deputy chair of the Parliament’s Human Rights Committee Dimitry Lortkipanidze rebuked the Public Defender for not having reflected the facts of lawyers’ rights violation in his annual report. 27 Apr 2012 »
Voluntary military reserve – Homs bacillus in Georgia
Lately, opposition representatives have spoken about the training of paramilitary groups in western Georgia, particularly in the Samegrelo region. They have noted that the government is training a special contingent to be used to disperse possible protest demonstrations. 04 Apr 2012 »
Georgian government adopts the law to punish everybody
The laws adopted by the Government of Georgia quite often cause discontent among citizens but the Law on Political Unions of Citizens has caused particularly serious discontent within Georgian civil society. Civic organizations initiated a campaign under the name “It Affects You” against the new provision in the law; very soon a record number of over 200 organizations joined the campaign in Georgia. Despite harsh civic protest, the government put the new law into practice and a new, specially designed service office within the State Audit Company [Chamber of Control] took action against opposition political parties and citizens somehow affiliated with them. 19 Mar 2012 »
Right to peaceful assemblies and manifestations in Georgia
Georgian Constitution guarantees the freedom of assembly and manifestation, however, Georgian public witnessed unlawful intrusion of law enforcers in the right to peaceful assembly and manifestation several times throughout 2011. A significant number of legislative amendments were adopted that appear to affect the right to association and to peaceful assembly. 01 Mar 2012 »
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