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Actors and technical personnel of the Telavi Vazha Pshavela State Drama Theatre intend to hold protest demonstrations to request resignation of Duta Skhirtladze from the position of the theatre manager.

“We must make the government to joyfully implement the joyfully accepted international recommendations,” Tamar Gurchiani, lawyer of the Georgian Young Lawyers Association said at the meeting held in the Georgian Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on 27-28 March. Representatives of media and non-governmental organizations participated in the discussion dedicated to the international standards of human rights.

Tyranny is an important phenomenon that operates by principles by which it can be recognized in its early emerging stages, and, if the people are vigilant, prepared, and committed to liberty, countered before it becomes entrenched.

On March 21 Tbilisi Appeal Court rejected the complaint lodged by the journalist Salome Tsetskhladze of the Studio “Monitor” and made no change to the January 21 Tbilisi City Court decision.

Experts and human rights defenders are concerned about recently introduced amendments to the Law about Military Reserve Service which allows ordinary citizens to voluntarily join military reserve service. Why do we need this service? Journalist of the Human Rights Center’s video-portal http://www.hridc.tv/ tried to get answer to this question.

Interpresnews interviewed director of the Law Department of the Georgian Development Research Institute Vakhtang Khmaladze about recent statement of Irakli Alasania about establishment of paramilitary groups by the government in Samegrelo region; about US Ambassador John Bass’s comment about the activities of the Chamber of Control and about implementation of the recommendations of the international community and Venice Commission with regard to elections by the government of Georgia.

Director of the Ltd Interplast’s workshop Misha Berianidze threatened Mari Otarashvili, correspondent of the newspaper Resonance and Information Center of Mtskheta-Mtianeti with physical assault. The owners of the Ltd Interplast are Mtskheta-Mtianeti regional governor Tsezar Chocheli and his brother Iago Chocheli.