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Poet Zviad Ratiani was detained during the June 23 nighttime protest near Parliament in Tbilisi. The Interior Ministry told ...
Since then, protesters have blocked Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue, where the parliament building is located, every day, while daily gatherings have also taken place in other major Georgian cities.
The receipt of these court orders “indicates that Georgian Dream and the state bodies under its full control continue to use ...
Badri Japaridze of Lelo for Georgia became the third opposition politician to receive a prison sentence in a single day for ...
Georgia’s external merchandise trade (excluding non-declared trade) reached USD 9.79 billion in January-May 2025, marking a ...
Mamuka Khazaradze, leader of the opposition Lelo party, was sentenced on June 23 to eight months in prison for refusing to ...
Zurab Japaridze, leader of the opposition Girchi–More Freedom party, was sentenced to seven months in jail — the first guilty ...
The State Security Service of Georgia (SSSG) arrested former Deputy Economy Minister Romeo Mikautadze on money laundering and ...
Datashvili was arrested on June 20, nine days after the Interior Ministry launched a criminal probe on charges of assaulting ...
Mzia Amaghlobeli, a founder of the Batumelebi and Netgazeti news outlets, has been in pretrial detention since January after ...
The debate intensified after some opposition figures and pundits said they could wrest control of major cities, including the ...