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The Human Rights House Tbilisi responds to the developments that took place in Tbilisi on May 17, 2016 and expresses concern about the detention of civil activists.

Human Rights House Tbilisi prepared a report Human Rights to the Regions – annual report about the state of human rights and basic freedoms in Georgia.
Monitoring by the Human Rights House Tbilisi (HRHT) revealed violation of civil-political and social-economic rights of citizens. Ongoing developments in the country, existing hard social and economic state, unstable state policy create problems in the field of human rights too.

In the end of February 2016, Muslim and Orthodox population of Adigeni village in Adigeni Municipality had verbal and physical controversy over the cemetery.

Liriodendron of a hundred years, same as a tulip tree, was taken from Tsikhisdziri nursery garden to Shekvetili. The giant tree was transported by ship. It will be planted in the dendrology park nearby the constructing concert hall in Shekvetili. The former prime-minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili is building the concert hall. Two more cypress trees are being prepared for the removal from Tsikhisdziri.

Georgia’s human rights record remained uneven in 2015, according to the 659-page World Report 2016, its 26th edition, where Human Rights Watch reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries.

On November 8, 2015 lawyer Giorgi Mdinaradze of the State Legal Aid Service went to the Vake-Saburtalo district police unit # 5 to defend rights of juvenile detainee. He learned from the investigator that the detainee was accused of robbery. The lawyer claimed before interrogation process he told the investigator that the juvenile would use right to silence. Police officers took the detainee to a separate room where the father also attended the conversation. Afterwards, the police officers became aggressive towards the lawyer. They took Giorgi Mdinaradze to the working room of the head of the police unit and about 5 police officers, including the chief police officer, verbally and physically assaulted him. Afterwards they prepared protocol on his administrative arrest but finally released the lawyer based on receipt.

Human Rights Day is celebrated on December 10 across the world whilst tens of journalists, human rights defenders and civil activists are imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Leyla Yunus and Khadija Ismaylova dedicated their freedom to the defense of others’ rights. Weak evidence in their cases reinforces doubts about political motivation of their charges.

Human Rights Day has been celebrated across the world annually on December 10 for 67 years already. It was established to mark the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
Human Rights House Tbilisi is glad to join the celebration of the World Human Rights Day because the main purpose of the organization is also restoration of breached human rights.

November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Georgia marks the day together with 154 states worldwide. The campaign first started in 1991 and it has been getting wider every year.