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26 Aug. '10
 Approximately 10 people have been on a hunger strike at the Ministry of IDPs for two days now. Four of them have sewn their lips shut. The Ministry officials are taking vacations. |
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22 Sep. '09
 Today, near the Rustaveli Undergraound Station and Tbilisi State University the Human Rights Center organized an event to celebrate the Internaitonal Day of Peace.The UN International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by resolution 36/67 of the General Assembly to coincide every year with its opening session in September. In 2001 September 21 was fixed to become a day of global ceasefire and non-violence through 24 hours.
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23 Jul. '09
 There are not many people at the Sarpi Custom’s House now. You cannot see the order of the Minister of Finances now; short time ago it was on the board though it was not put in force yet. Every citizen who crosses the border gets annoyed. They say “The law states different but here they demand excise for everything…” |
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2 Jul. '09
 Robert Chkhaidze, Batumi Mayor, meets inhabitants in the afternoon of every Tuesday. On June 30, the appointed meeting started half an hour later because the Mayor was late. |
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17 Jun. '09
 Boiled cabbage and one candy for dinner
“Whose sister are you? Who are you visiting here? These
questions are asked to everybody who enters the Salibauri boarding
school. The first question to the Human Rights Center was the same.
When they learned that the visitor was a
journalist they concluded: “Have you come here because we were ordered
to clean our classrooms? Parent of our schoolmate Irakli Zakaradze sued
the school and now they do not make us clean the rooms.” The school has
always had four cleaners.
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22 Oct. '08
Tbilisi-Nikozi-Tbilisi
 Special ReportageThe head of the family of Giguashvilis is standing before their ruined and burnt house in the village of Tkviavi in Gori district. He is looking at the charred walls that remain as a remnant of what was their home. His wife, daughter-in-law and child are all waiting for us in the cattleshed that was recently cleaned up to set up housekeeping. A homemade electric space heater keeps the former cattle shed warn. It cost but only seven GEL. The homemaker is baking “Mchadi”. A boy of seven is sitting on the sofa-the only furniture that survived from the former home. “We will freeze out this winter,” said Natia Giguashvili in a whisper. There is a stack of firewood in the yard that was delivered by non-governmental organization; it is only enough for three weeks.
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22 Aug. '08
 Special Frontline ReportLife can only be experienced from 10:00 AM to 6:00 Pm in the abandoned city of Gori. Russian soldiers are strolling along the streets in Gori in the morning and in the evenings. People, who holed up in the basements of residential flats are jittery and react on the smallest noise, even a mouse. During the day you can see an elderly woman or man hurriedly going home. Regardless that the Russian occupants have not do anything harmful to innocent civilians during recent few days, people are still not content see Russian soldiers in Gori.
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21 Aug. '08
 You will not notice anything strange at the entrance of the Tbilisi
Central Hospital. It is doubtiful that you would even be able to guess
that Georgia is on war footing. You should taken another entrance; on
the other side where the tablet on the door states “Receptionist” -
there you will see things in another light. People are standing in
groups and they are not looking at each other. They are just standing
in utter msilence. Some of they are looking up familiar names on the
lists on the wall…everybody’s face reflects the horrors of war. You can
hear somebody crying as we also heard…. A young boy was sitting at a
street guard post was also crying loudly behind the post…it is hard to
enter there. Naturally we are afraid… we did not say anything to each
other. All what happened was not necessary; everything is clear.
Finally we looked at each other and entered.…
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21 Aug. '08
 A huge tent was set up on the field but after several hours it fell down and people sheltering under it was stuck in the tangle of the mess. An eleven-year-old boy from Tskhinvali region became scared and thought that the Russians had now started bombing Tbilisi.
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18 Aug. '08
 August 7 - ...2008.
Georgian society felt increased tension in the country for a long time.
Everybody expected that one day or night the situation would get
uncontrolled and hostilities would start.
During recent months, almost every day the Human Rights Center sent
appeals to international and local society to prevent the escalation of
the situation. But we could not stop the routine...
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18 Aug. '08
 A woman is stilling in the entrance of the school; she is writing a
list. Similar lists are being drawn up at the entrances of almost every
public and nursery schools in Tbilisi. Most part of IDPs has fled from
Tskhinvali region and has sheltered there temporarily. They are
registering each other and looking for the missing people; then they
make groups of some IDPs. Schooling term has not started yet but
schools and nursery schools are crowded; the word used sixteen years
ago is again written on the blackboards in the classrooms: Reserved.
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3 Jul. '08
 Special Report You might remember the now famous words of President Mikheil Saakashvili: “Who does not want to travel by our train, let them get off”… this was the message of the president to opposition parties. The train of the National Movement has been running for four years already but Gori district population cannot take train to Tbilisi yet…
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19 Jun. '08
 “I appealed to the City Hall regarding the registration of land on January 18 2008. I provided all documents that they requested and told me to come back within a month. I visited the City Hall on February 18 and I was told to come again in a month. On March 18 they told me this time to come back in two weeks. Next time the term was one month and half. Since that time I visit them every second day. I complained with one of the employees of the City Hall about the situation and who replied that I had to wait for yet another three months.”
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21 Mar. '08
 Oppositionists in Zugdidi are on hunger-strike with the accompaniment of the song “Misha (the name of Georgian President) Is Great!” three tents are set up in the main avenue near the statue to Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Hunger-strikers who have been on protest for eight days already listen to the song “Misha is Great”’ during ten hours a day. The remote control for the fountain and the song is in the building of the District Municipality Board leaders of the opposition parties claim the local government breaches the rights of hunger-strikers. |
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18 Feb. '08
 Special Reportage
One of the rooms of the Duisi Dormitory in the village
of Duisi is crowded. A family of Chechen refugees live in this room.
They were luckier than others and have lived in the boarding school
since the settlement. In 1999 all refugees lived in the same situation
however, soon Kists offered their houses to them and others sheltered
hospitals or other buildings.
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15 Feb. '08
 Special Report
Chechen refugees are offered to integrate in Georgia; however the refugees cannot see a future in Georgia ….
By August of 2007 1,097
Chechen refugees were officially registered in Georgia. They were
settled in communal housing conditions dorm like facilities in the
villages of Pankisi Valle, especially after the Second Chechen War in
1999. Some of the families were taken in and sheltered by Kist locals
(Chechens who have lived on Georgian territory for the last 200 years,
but others, less fortunate families have lived and continue to live all
crowded in one room accommodations in various buildings. Conditions
they fact are often very difficult: social economic and political.
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21 Jan. '08
 Increased pension can not ease the life of socially
excluded people. Most of them are still having their meal in free
canteens. But because of small budget places are limited in them too.
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16 Jan. '08
 Special ReportageKosovo is a region on the Balkan Peninsula discussed by people, involved in politics or not, the world over. Georgians are an exception to this rule, however, often speaking of the supposed independence of the region.
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11 Jan. '08
NGOs caught Central Election Commission on the crime.
On January 10 at 1:00 PM the NGO Coalition for Democracy held demonstration in front of the CEC. The NGOs demanded to launch criminal prosecution against Levan Tarkhnishvili, the chairperson of the CEC.
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10 Jan. '08
 Mikheil Saakashvili’s famous phrase is “The cradle of Rose Revolution was rocked in Samgrelo.” Now the phrase attained new meaning. Local people has rocked the cradle for him once more and as oppositionists claim, Gorozias, Kobalias, Akhalias, Koduas and Gunavas demonstrated their power to Saakashvili again.
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