Tbilisi. The Public Defender's Parliamentary Report 2015 provides an overview of the human rights situation in the occupied territories. The report notes that violation of fundamental rights, such as the right to life, health, education and movement, continues in Abkhazia and so-called South Ossetia. Ethnic discrimination, illegal confinement and other offences are of regular nature.

''Access to education and the right to get it in the native language are particularly problematic in the Gali region. Since the 2015-2016 academic year, students have been taught in Russian in 1-4 grades of the remaining 11 schools where classes are conducted in Georgian, and in other grades the hours allocated for the Georgian language were reduced. Because of this change, some families had to move their children to the territory under the Georgian control in order to enable them to study in Georgian. Shift to the Russian language also significantly deteriorated the quality of education'', is noted in the statement.

Source: ombudsman.ge