We, the signatory organizations, are applying to the High Council of Justice of Georgia with a demand to ensure the openness of the ongoing competition for the selection of judges and to allow interested persons to attend at the interviews with

  On October 31, 2015 the Ministry of Justice presented the updated draft legislation on witness interrogation at the criminal law reform interagency council. The Coalition believes that the updated version contains novations that considerably

 With the aim of ensuring the independence of the Prosecutor’s Office, this year the Government of Georgia has launched a reform of the prosecution system. The Ministry of Justice prepared a concept for reforming the prosecution system, followed

  The Coalition negatively assesses the High Council of Justice’s decision from November 16, 2015 to appoint seven judges to Tbilisi Appellate Court based on a non-competitive process. We believe that this process is not only unhelpful fo

  We, the signatory organizations, are responding to the information distributed by the media on November 8, according to which, Giorgi Mdinaradze, the lawyer with legal aid service had suffered physical injuries at the hands of the policemen. A

On Thursday, November 5, Judge Tamaz Urtmelidze of the Tbilisi City Court issued a ruling to secure the enforcement of the decision regarding the case of Rustavi 2 on the basis of the application of the plaintiff – the lawyer of Kibar Khalvashi

  We would like to bring to your attention that on November 5, 2015 judge of the Tbilisi City Court issued unlawful decision firing Rustavi 2’s current director and top management and replacing them with new acting directors and provisiona

  The 2015 Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit held in Mexico City hosted 1,500 participants from various countries, including representatives from legislative and executive branches of government, civil society organizations, and bu

    We would like to react to dissemination of video images of torture on the Ukrainian web page, as well as to public demonstration of these videos in Tbilisi and Zugdidi. Images of human torture were disseminated on the Ukrainian web pag

  We, NGOs signatory to the statement, disapprove the ongoing process in the High Council of Justice relating to a non-competitive appointment of judges in the Appellate Court in a forced manner. We believe recent developments in the Council rai