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2010-10-08
Hammerberg Is not Satisfied with the Work of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Vice Versa
South Ossetia de-facto government names 140 ethnic
Ossetians to be missing. The representatives of South Ossetia de-facto
President and a public defender, Davit Sanakoev state that this number
includes not only those lost after the 2008 August war but all the lost
people between 1989 and 2008.
2010-10-08
Givi Berikashvili’s Relative is Sentenced with Preliminary Imprisonment
Tbilisi City Court Judge Vazha Pukhashvili passed
sentence of preliminary imprisonment as a compulsory measure against
individual undertaker of LLC “Kidobani” Nino Lortkipanidze, a relative
of actor Givi Berikashvili. Nino Lortkipanidze is one of the 18
individual undertakers the case of compulsory measure of whose was
discussed on October 7th by the judge Pukhashvili.
2010-10-07
Residents of Potskhoetseri Urge for Help
An IDP from Abkhazia Madona Vekua lived in the building
for compact settlement in Tbilisi. Two months ago, she was internally
displaced once more – the ministry of the IDPs from the occupied
territories, refugees and accommodation resettled her from the former
building of the Russian military base to Potskhoetseri settlement in
Samegrelo region. Madona Vekua complains about her health. There are no
conditions to take medical treatment in Potskhoetseri. There is not
even a hospital there.
2010-10-07
Where Did “Sandra’s Buses” Disappear?
Zviad Khmaladze Is Selling Out Municipal Transportation
LLC “Gortransavto,” which was seized from its owner Guja
Berikashvili by the local government, is being urgently sold out on the
auction today. Why is the enterprise concerning which the court made
decisions beneficial for its previous owner being sold?! Guja
Berikashvili doesn’t want to express his position on this issue. But, a
lot more interesting is the fact that Berikashvili himself might
participate in the auction. Practically, he will have to purchase his
enterprise for the second time.
2010-10-07
Clinton Renews Call for Russian Withdrawal From Georgia
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has renewed the U.S.
call for a withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgia under the accords
that ended the two countries' brief war in 2008.
2010-10-07
Roman Gventsadze: “I Like Vano Merabishvili but I Cannot Understand the Idea of the “Reasonable Doubt”
“Georgia has not had such a strong minister of internal
affairs since 1990s. Vano Merabishvili is the cleverest and strongest
person of all ministers I know; he is even better than I was -I once
said it and one oppositionist commented on my words: Roman Gventsadze
praises Merabishvili because he promoted his son and released his
grandson from prison. It is not correct. My son still occupies the same
position and my grandson is still in prison,” said former minister of
internal affairs of Georgia Roman Gventsadze who likes the current law
enforcement system though he does not avoid criticizing of the mistakes
too.
2010-10-07
Clinton Sent Gilauri Home with Some Hard Homework
Clinton said that parliamentary elections of 2012 and
then president elections of 2013 “should showcase, that the Georgian
democracy not only meets, but exceeds international standards.”
US State Department published the official version of US
Secretary General Hillary Clinton speech. Clinton gave a speck on
October 6th at a meeting held in the frameworks of Charter of Strategic
Partnership with Georgia. The meeting was attended by the PM Nika
Gilauri, Ministry of Energy Aleksandre Khetaguri and the Assistant of
State Secretary of USA Philip Gordon. According to Hillary Clinton,
free elections, trustworthy institutions and active civil society is
the guarantee for stability and legitimacy for any government.
2010-10-07
Court Completely Satisfied Request of the Investigation When Imposing Preventive Measures over Individual Entrepreneurs from the Shopping Centers
The request of the investigative department within the
Georgian ministry of finances was almost completely satisfied in regard
with the detained individual entrepreneurs from the shopping centers
“Kidobani” and “Pasaji”. Judge Vazha Pukhashvili at the Tbilisi City
Court sentenced 10 accused to pretrial detention as it was requested by
the investigation.
2010-10-06
Memory Toast to Georgian and Abkhaz Soldiers
Much was said on the 17th anniversary after the defeat
of Sokhumi but the words of the General Giorgi Karkarashvili made
impression on me. “Today, our gathering looks like a toast. I want to
remember the soldiers who died on our side and make a memory toast to
those who were killed by us.”
2010-10-06
The Dining & Boiler Rooms Sold Out along with the IDPs
In the building of former boarding school in Senaki, as
a result of the state strategy, the residence homes of IDPs in the
compact centers are started to be rehabilitated and given to their
ownership. But, as it has turned out, the residence homes of IDPs in
the former dining & boiler rooms situated thereby won’t be
renovated as it’s under the private ownership.
2010-10-05
Inadequate Priorities of Rustavi Local Government
62-year-old Tengiz Sanikidze asks Rustavi City Hall
twenty GEL voucher for the medications: “We were told right before
election that City Hall was going to give twenty GEL vouchers for the
medications. I live in number 26th at the Friendship St. Every
pensioner from our apartment building has been in the polyclinic. We
were registered. We had to sit in a line for an hour. Then we went back
to City Hall and brought the receipt from the polyclinic. We were told
that we would receive vouchers, but have not received anything yet,” –
states Sanikidze.
2010-10-05
“Secret” City Friends of Municipalities
Municipalities are “making more friends” with different
cities. For example, the head of Gori municipality city council Zviad
Khmaladze often goes to the city of Lutsk owing to “friendship.” During
his last visit, he was accompanied by Shida Kartli governor Zurab
Arsoshvili. Nobody knows the real reason of friendship between these
cities, especially on the background of Shida Kartli government’s
mystified visit to Ukraine in the month of August.
2010-10-05
Where Should We Live? – Dilemma For Akhalgori District Residents
About 7 700 people lived in Akhalgori district before
the armed conflict in August of 2008. As a result of the military
operations, Russian armies deployed in the district; however, unlike
other districts of the former autonomous republic of South Ossetia,
mass ethnic cleansing did not take place in Akhalgori district.
Currently, the Law of Georgia on Occupied Territories work for the
district and according to it, there is emergency situation in Akhalgori
district.
2010-10-05
Turned Off Electricity and Threats of Eviction against IDPs
By the government’s strategy, the IDPs are going to be
placed in new residence homes. With this intention, special high
storied apartment buildings are being built in Poti. Before the
exploitation of the new homes, the city government provided residence
places for several families. It is one of the high storied apartment
buildings at Gorgasali St. #5/38, the building of which started during
the communist period when it was called a cooperative apartment. This
house has been in the form of carcase without an owner for years now.
The communist era finished without the completion of the house.
2010-10-04
Creeping Occupation, False Alarm or Modeled Provocation?!
On the night of September 29th, the population of
villages (Zemo and Kvemo Niqozi (Upper and Lower Niqozi), Zemo and
Kvemo Khviti (Upper and Lower Khviti) belonging to the community of the
village Niqozi, Gori Region, started panicking. According to the
information spread by the national televisions, Russian armed forced
transferred in Zemo and Kvemo Niqozi and occupied 25 hectare territory.
This information is confirmed only by one lady in the whole community
who names the policemen as the source of the information.
2010-10-04
“Nobody Is Interested in the Facts of Fabrication”
In a few days, the minister of internal affairs of
Georgia and chief prosecutor will receive a letter from the Kutaisi
office of the Republic Party. The letter is about the violations
observed in Kutaisi during the local municipal elections in 2010; the
violations resulted into total falsification of the election results in
Kutaisi. Nato Katamadze, the head of the Kutaisi office of the Republic
Party, requests liability of those people who participated in the
fabrication process.
2010-10-04
Nothing Personal – Draft Law Which Protects and Makes It Public
Will the personal lives of people protected in Georgia and what are the
guarantees that their personal information will not become the reason
for their personal discrimination - these are questions asked by one
part of lawyers regarding the draft-law on the “Protection of Personnel
Data”.
2010-10-04
“Accused Victims” Victims of “Zero Tolerance” and “Selective Justice”
The
press-conference in the office of the Human Rights Center on October 4
was dedicated to the inadequately strict verdicts passed by the common
courts of Georgia. At the press-conference the human rights defenders
discussed the concrete verdict passed by the judge of the Tbilisi City
Court Badri Kochlamazashvili on September 28. Kochlamazashvili sent the
young people wounded in front of the Technical University a year ago to
prison for 3,5 years and imposed fine of 3 000 GEL on each of them.
2010-10-01
Prisoner Died Because of Incorrect Medical Treatment
Irakli, Giorgi and Nika look at the photo of their
father to remember his face; the father Kakhaber Bezhanidze died in
prison on September 26, 2009. According to the diagnosis, he died of
ulcer on stomach and duodenum and of acute sepsis. The council of the
professional development within the State Regulation Agency of the
Medical Activities sanctified the doctors who treated Bezhanidze.
However, the sanction is only a suspension of the doctor’s license for
4 months. The widow of the dead prisoner Marina Turmanidze states her
husband died of the incorrect treatment and is about to request a
compensation from the state.
2010-10-01
“Any crimes against missing persons must be thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators should be identified and prosecuted”
Georgian MIA and Tskhinvali De-Facto Authority Discontent About Hammarberg’s Strict Report
On September 29, the results of the monitoring of the
investigations concerning the treatment and fate of certain missing
persons during and after the armed conflict in August of 2008 were published. The
document constitutes the introduction statement of the Council of
Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg and statements
of the experts of the CoE.
OTHER NEWS
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Ministry of Internal Affairs Is Going To Buy Supervisory Videos Carrying On Bodies
Instances of pressure exerted on individuals detained on the Case of the Ministry of Agriculture need to be investigated
Trial on Former Head of Kakheti CSD Laliashvili
Cars of Eco-Migrants from Tsalka Fined
Archive
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Historic Review of Georgian Political Advertisement
In 2005, American researchers estimated that political advertisements on TV have short (two-week) impact on voters. But the result is so rapid andDetailed...
Pre-election Advertisement Promises
Quality and Purpose of Political Advertisements
EDITORIAL
Human Rights Center to Monitor Trials on Former Senior Governmental Officials
How the detention process of former senior officials is going on; whether political motivation is detected in it and will the new initiativeDetailed...
As a result of international oppression, State Audit Office and National Bureau of Enforcement postponed the repressions
The August war- who is guilty?
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How do you think, did the political prisoners, released by the Parliament of Georgia short time ago, deserve freedom?