UK and other OSCE participating States express concern over the deteriorating human rights situation and call on Georgia to open an inclusive dialogue ...

Georgian police arrested Saba Sordia, a journalist with the online media outlet Indigo, on administrative charges for ...

It is sad to see how Georgia, once a beacon of democracy in the South Caucasus, is backsliding toward authoritarianism-laws ...

The Observatory has been informed about the freezing of the bank accounts of two human rights organisations, the Human Rights House Tbilisi, one of the key regional actors providing support to human ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your ...

The case of journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli, whom the Commissioner visited in prison, illustrates the increasingly challenging environment for independent journalism. “Her prolonged pre-trial detention is ...

The Batumi City Court has found Mzia Amaghlobeli, founder of the publications Batumelebi and Netgazeti, guilty of an administrative offense and imposed a 2,000 GEL fine. The ruling, issued by Judge ...

The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) announced today, March 18, that TrialWatch, which provides free legal aid in support of free speech around the world, intends to monitor the trial of Mzia ...

Judge Badri Kochlamazashvili sentenced the 57-year-old ex-president to an extra four years and six months on charges of illegal border crossing, adding time to his existing sentence. Speaking by ...

On March 17, the Social Justice Center (SJC) filed an Amicus Curiae with the Batumi City Court on the case of Mzia Amaghlobeli, director of the Netgazeti/Batumelebi publication. It aims to guide the ...