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Tbilisi. The Social Justice Center publishes an evaluation: Security sector, law enforcement system and repressive criminal policy-2021.
Tbilisi. The Social Justice Center publishes an analytical document: April 19 Agreement - another missed opportunity for judicial reform.
Tbilisi. The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) publishes a blog post of Tamar Khukhia, an analyst of the organization, - “Judicial reform in Georgia – a missed opportunity”.
Tbilisi. An organization “Democracy Index” presents a study: “Quality of reasoning of court decisions in Georgia”.
Tbilisi. The Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary considers the appointment of four Supreme Court judges by the Parliament to be unjustified and damaging.
Tbilisi. The Public Defender and an organization “Rights Georgia” have published a special report, which demonstrates results of monitoring of legal proceedings carried out at Tbilisi and Rustavi city courts.
Tbilisi. The Human Rights Center publishes an analytical document: “The right to a fair trial in cases of administrative offenses”.
Tbilisi. The Coalition calls on the Parliament of Georgia to refrain from appointing Supreme Court judges until a systemic justice reform takes place and a political consensus for deciding such issues becomes mandatory.
Tbilisi. According to the decision made by the Constitutional Court on June 7, 2019, judicial acts endorsed as a result of open hearings should be available to public, however, the Parliament has not yet adopted relevant legislative changes.
Tbilisi. The Social Justice Center has prepared a brochure that aims at informing society about legal restrictions and penalties related to narcotic drugs.
Tbilisi. According to IDFI’s assessment, the case of Mikheil Saakashvili is being considered in violation of the right to a fair trial.
Tbilisi. Public Defender states restricting the 3rd President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, from participating in his own trial grossly violates the right to a fair trial enshrined in the Constitution of Georgia and the European Convention.
Tbilisi. According to information released by an organization “Sapari”, the UN Women Committee has published a decision on the case of Khanum Jeiranova.
Tbilisi. The Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary releases a statement considering that public response of several judges to the statement made by the Administrative Committee of the Conference of Judges and their dissociation from it might be an important step in restoring public confidence in the judiciary.
Tbilisi. Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI) responds to recent detentions of activists by law enforcers.
Tbilisi. Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI) responds to election of two new members of the High Council of Justice at the Judicial Conference of Georgia.
Tbilisi. The Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary believes that in the current situation, the election of a judge member/s of the High Council of Justice by the Judicial Conference is unjustified.
Imereti. According to information released by the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA), a judge of the Kutaisi Court of Appeals wrote an important distinctive opinion on an electoral dispute of GYLA.
Tbilisi. The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association and the Social Justice Center consider that planned amendments to the Law of Georgia on Police unjustifiably increase the authority of police officers during identification of a person and create risks of unreasonable, disproportionate interference into private life of people.
Tbilisi. As the Social Justice Center informs, the Supreme Court refused to provide statistical data on counterintelligence activities to the organization.
Tbilisi. On October 11, 2021, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association, together with the International Partnership for Human Rights - IPHR on the cases of the Rostomashvili Group submitted written opinions to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the fulfillment of the international obligations undertaken by the Georgian government, and on the cases of the Identoba Group submitted independently.
Tbilisi. Rights Georgia, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, Social Justice Center, Georgian Democracy Initiative and the Human Rights Center, with the support of the Open Society Georgia Foundation, implement a joint project – “Legal aid network for activists”.