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URGENT APPEALS
2008-02-05
Human Rights Watch World Report - January 2008
Country summary
Georgia
After several days of large-scale peaceful opposition demonstrations in November, the Georgian government initiated a violent crackdown on protesters, causing a serious human rights crisis. This crisis occurred in the context of an emerging but dominant view among the governing political elite and its supporters that short-term, supposedly minor sacrifices in human rights are justifiable to build a stronger state, which can better protect human rights in the long term. This approach, however, is leading Georgia away from international standards and represents a gamble with freedom. Prison conditions remain poor, and fair trial and property rights are restricted. Against international recommendations, in 2007 Georgia lowered the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
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Hungry Commission Members and Commission Chairpersons Angry with Observers in Batumi
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Seal without Carve and Voter with Two Names in Guria
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Human Rights Center to Monitor Trials on Former Senior Governmental Officials
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