🟥An oligarch, Bidzina Ivanishvili - the honorary chairman of the GD party, former PM of #Georgia, and widely regarded as the country’s informal ruler - hosted President of #Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.
The meeting also included govt delegations.
The party published a video of the meeting.
🟥According to Tamta Mikeladze, head of the Social Justice Center, Afgan Sadygov is now free. However, details about the grounds for his detention and where he was held for several hours remain unknown at this stage.
🚨As Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visits #Tbilisi, journalist Afgan Sadygov has been detained in #Baku after being deported from #Georgia on April 5, despite a @echr.coe.int ruling prohibiting his extradition due to risks to his safety.
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🟥 Mzia Amaglobeli’s case was reviewed for conditional early release and rejected because she “still doesn't repent her actions.”
🟥The law doesn't require acknowledgment of guilt or remorse for conditional early release
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#FreeMzia #Georgia
🟥The @echr.coe.int has registered Mzia Amaglobeli’s 3rd application [over degrading treatment in police custody] within one week of submission.
The application is challenging violations of several rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, including Articles 3, 8, 13, and 14.
#FreeMzia
Switzerland to Require Visas for Georgian Diplomatic and Official Passport Holders Starting April 3
🟥The measure is a further development of the Schengen acquis and will remain in place for 12 months. Other Georgian nationals are not affected.
#GeorgiaProtests #Georgia #Switzerland
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🟥 Journalist Mariam Kuprava had been accused of “artificially blocking the road” while covering a weekly protest and faced up to 15 days of administrative detention, even though video evidence presented by the MIA showed she was identifiable as a journalist.
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🟥 Georgia’s Public Defender has presented its 2025 annual human rights report to parliament, also flagging concerns over protest-related enforcement, due process violations, prison deaths, and rising child poverty.
#GeorgiaProtests #RepressionInGeorgia
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🟥Donald Trump has extended for another year the U.S. national emergency targeting Russia’s harmful foreign activities — a move that keeps sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili in force.
#Georgia #USA
#RussiaSanctions
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🗣️"No country is protected from the consequences of a regional crisis. The crisis is much closer than it may seem at first glance,” #Iran’s Ambassador to #Georgia, Ali Moujani, wrote on March 31.
Several hours after publishing the post, Moujani’s FB account disappeared and can no longer be found.
🟥 Davit Gabaidze has resigned from his position as Chair of the Georgian Dream’s Supreme Council of #Adjara. He announced this himself at a briefing held today, March 30.
🛑 Administrative offense cases against three journalists were heard today. All are accused of “artificially blocking the road,” although they were covering protests and performing their professional duties.
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#JournalismIsNotACrime #RepressionsInGeorgia
🛑Bacho Akhalaia faces a new charge under Article 317 for 'calling to violently overthrow the government'. He’s already facing up to 9 years for organizing the October 4 protests.
#GeorgiaProtests
🟥 More than a year since Trump returned to office, Georgian Dream continues to seek a reset with the United States — after undermining those ties since the start of the #RussiaUkraineWar while promising to rebuild them under Donald Trump’s second presidency
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🚨 #Georgia’s rapid decline in civic freedoms has once again triggered international alert, with the country added to the @civicusalliance.bsky.social’s March 2026 Watchlist alongside Benin, Ecuador, Iran and the Philippines
#RepressionsInGeorgia #Georgia
🟥 Who is Judge Giorgi Arevadze - Once criticized by Georgian Dream for politically motivated rulings, he is now presiding over high-profile cases, including sentencing an opposition leader to prison.
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#GeorgiaProtests #RepressionsInGeorgia
🟥The court hearing in the administrative offence case against
Tabula journalist Mariam Kuprava has been postponed to March 30 at the request of the MIA who is demanding her detention for up to 15 days.
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#JournalismIsNotACrime #Georgia
🟥 Elene Khoshtaria has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for writing “Russian Dream” on Kaladze's banner.
📍 She wrote it in solidarity with 23yo student, who is also being prosecuted for the same charge.
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#GeorgiaProtests
Netgazeti journalist Mariam Dzidzaria faces up to 15 days in detention for allegedly “blocking the road” while covering protests with visible press ID.
Court hearing is set for March 27. Media watchdogs & academics are calling for the charges to be dropped.
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🟥March 12, marks 14 months of the unlawful imprisonment of Georgian journalist and media founder, #SakharovPrize2025 laureate Mzia Amaglobeli.
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#FreeMzia
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#Georgia #RepressionInGeorgia
"We reiterate our solidarity with them, calling for justice and their immediate release. Amaglobeli’s reports of humiliating treatment while in detention must be investigated. We stand firmly with all women who defend truth and freedom."
#FreeMzia
⏺️ What are the plans of Georgia’s opposition leaders, many of whom face pending cases after only recently leaving prison?
Nika Gvaramia of the Ahali Party Speaking for You.
Note: This interview was recorded on February 21.
#GeorgiaProtests
#Georgia
🔻Sanctions imposed: Asset freeze, Trust services sanctions, Director Disqualification sanctions
#Georgia
🟥 On February 18, police in #Tbilisi detained editor-in-chief of 'Qronika+' Eliso Kiladze.
Acc/to the Prosecutors Office, the journalist is charged in connection with a so-called fraudulent call center case, involving former Chief Prosecutor Otar Partskhaladze,
🟥Kiladze Denis the charges.
#Georgia
🟥Giorgi Bachiashvili, the former head of Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Co-Investment Fund who had been sentenced to 11 years in prison in the high-profile “Bitcoin case,” has been released under a plea agreement after admitting guilt and reimbursing damages, the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed.
#Georgia
🟥 Nino Jangirashvili, director of Kavkasia TV, published the letter received from the Georgian National Communications Commission.
The Commission has requested a written explanation from the broadcaster within three working days.
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#JournalismIsNotACrime
🟥 Georgian Dream moves to criminalize the 'non-recognition of constitutional bodies', proposing fines, community service or up to three years in prison under amendments discussed in parliament today.
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#Georgia #RepressionsInGeorgia
🟥 Georgian Dream finalizes student quotas for next year after “one city, one faculty” reform widely seen as a power grab.
Education experts have published a comparative analysis of the new quotas against the 2025 undergraduate admissions figures.
#Georgia #Education #RepressionsInGeorgia
🟥 Georgian Dream’s Deputy Foreign Minister attended a celebration of the Islamic Revolution anniversary at the Paragraph Hotel, built by the family of GD founder, oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili.
#Tbilisi’s iconic TV tower lit in the colors of Iran’s flag.
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🟥 A court has held a so-called pre-trial hearing in the “sabotage” case against eight opposition politicians, admitting all prosecution evidence and moving the case to the merits stage.
#RepressionsInGeorgia #Georgia
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