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Georgia: Police round up protestors as new restrictions on demonstrations take effect
New amendments to Georgia’s Administrative and Criminal Codes came into effect on 17 October, introducing harsher penalties for actions including covering one’s face and setting up temporary structures.
20 Oct 2025 Press release -
Georgia: Women protesters targeted with escalating gender-based violence - new briefingSexist insults, threats of sexual violence and unlawful and degrading strip searches against women protesters
22 May 2025 Press release -
Georgia: Protester's detention extended in unprecedented closed hearing
During Saba Skhvitaridze remand hearing, the court ordered members of public to leave the courtroom before delivering its decision – a measure largely unprecedented for protest-related trials in Georgia.
29 Jan 2025 Press release -
Georgia: Symbolic acts of protest targeted with draconian new law
New laws in Georgia in 2024 target activists and journalists
13 Jan 2025 Press release -
Georgia: Extreme police brutality, torture and hospitalisations in violent crackdown against protesters
Hundreds of protesters in Georgia have faced brutal dispersal tactics, arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment during a crackdown on anti-government rallies
13 Dec 2024 Press release -
Georgia: protesters face abuse and denial of fair trial rights in ongoing crackdown02 Dec 2024 Press release
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Georgia: 'Heavy-handed' dismantling of protest camp condemned
Amnesty International has condemned the heavy-handed police dismantling of a protest encampment near the Tbilisi State University campus in Georgia’s capital GEORGIA: ‘HEAVY-HANDED’ DISMANTLING OF PROTEST CAMP CONDEMNED Amnesty International has condemned the “heavy-handed” police dismantling of a protest encampment near the Tbilisi State University campus in Georgia’s capital
19 Nov 2024 Press release -
Georgia: adoption of repressive 'foreign influence' bill condemned14 May 2024 Press release
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Georgia: Police must be held accountable for its 'punishment operation' against protestersInstead of facilitating a peaceful demonstration, the police have carried out what appears to be a punishment operation
17 Apr 2024 Press release -
Georgia: Protesters showed 'great courage' to object to the repressive foreign agents billSecurity forces used water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades to disperse crowds
09 Mar 2023 Press release -
Georgia: Mikheil Saakashvili's prison sentence 'should not mean a death sentence'Former president has been in detention for 16 months and is suffering from serious psychological, neurological, orthopedic and gastrointestinal conditions
02 Mar 2023 Press release
