We, the undersigned organizations, are responding to the ruling made by the Supreme Court on February 10, 2020 in the case against Gigi Ugulava. The opposition leader was sentenced to three years, two months and eight days in prison. We conside

 The Parliament of Georgia is reviewing the draft law on Amendments to the Law on Information Security.The ineffectiveness of the law adopted in 2012, as evidenced by recent high-profile cyber-attacks and modern challenges, have made it obvious

 On December 12, the Parliament of Georgia confirmed Shalva Tadumadze, at the time Prosecutor General, for the position of a Supreme Court judge. In cases where the Prosecutor General’s authority is terminated prior to the completion of hi

 An open letter of Georgian civil society organizations to:United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Dunja Mijatović, EU Special Representative for Human Rights

 The backsliding of democracy in Georgia over the recent period has come under the spotlight by international organizations and representatives of countries friendly to Georgia. Backing out on the promise to adopt a proportional system, the form

 Tbilisi, 23 January 2020 – Georgia has been assigned a score of 56 and shares 44th place with Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, and Latvia in the 2019 edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which was published by the Transparency

 The public authorities use their power against civil activists selectively, disproportionately, and unreasonably. On June 20-21, the court imposed substantial fines and applied administrative imprisonment towards detainees without proper justif

 After electing the previous Independent Inspector as a Supreme Court justice, the High Council of Justice (HCOJ) announced a competition for selecting the new Independent Inspector.[1] The period of December 17 through December 26 was set for s

 The under-signatory CSOs believe that the January 2, 2020 crime committed against Murad Tsurtsumia, 24 years-old young man, must be investigated by the State Inspector’s Service. Therefore, we call on the State Inspector, to use her autho

 On December 20, Facebook released a statement saying that the company had removed hundreds of fake pages, groups, and accounts from their social network. These pages, groups and accounts demonstrated coordinated inauthentic behavior and have be