🛑 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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🚨 #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
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🟥 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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Independent and critical media in #Georgia have one of the last remaining means of survival and it is crowdfunding and small donations. Now even this has become a problem. This clearly illustrates the absurdity of the repressive laws and their real purpose.
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🟥 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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🟥 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.
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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.
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🟥 Introduced amid mass protests and a freeze on EU integration, Georgian Dream’s education reform is reshaping Georgia’s universities and schools in ways that experts say threaten academic autonomy, international cooperation, and students’ freedom of choice.
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🟥 Opposition leader Giorgi Vashadze has left Rustavi No. 12 prison after serving a seven-month sentence. Vashadze was detained in June 2025 for failing to appear before the so-called Tsulukiani Investigative Commission.
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🟥 Another precedent has been set at the Tbilisi City Court, where two civil activists were ordered to four days of detention each for protesting on the sidewalk.
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🔴 A first precedent has been set regarding sidewalk protest cases. Citizen Rezi Dumbadze was declared to have committed an administrative offense solely for standing on the sidewalk during a protest.
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🟥 On the night of November 19, police detained up to 15 people during the daily #GeorgiaProtest in #Tbilisi.
🟥 Today, protesters marched in support of 21-year-old musician and prisoner of conscience Mate Devidze, jailed a year ago and sentenced to 4.5 years.
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🗣️ At Mzia Amaglobeli’s appellate hearing, lawyer Maia Mtsariashvili highlighted her integrity and lack of influence, urging the court to decide if Georgia is truly a rule-of-law state.
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🔴 Key Points from Mzia Amaglobeli’s Appellate Court Hearing
The court set the dates for the next hearings — closing arguments — for November 14 at 14:00 and November 18 at 13:00.
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🗣️ “This case has no connection to law or justice — neither to the qualification of the prosecutor’s charges nor to Judge Sakhelashvili’s verdict. My imprisonment is a political decision of the regime,” said Mzia Amaglobeli.
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🗣️ "Fight before it's too late. Freedom is more valuable than life itself," - Mzia continues to stand for what she has called for! She is still standing, standing high, refusing to take a sit, to bow the regime, to reconcile with injustice!
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