During the ad hoc visit of the Special Preventive Group of the Public Defender's Office to the polling station opened at Ksani Establishment No 15 on October 31, 2020, the aim of which was to check bo ...

Representatives of the Public Defender of Georgia paid an ad hoc visit to Ksani Penitentiary Establishment No 15 today. During the visit, the Public Defender's representatives were prevented from exer ...

On October 21, 2020, the Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Prosecutor General of Georgia with a proposal to launch an investigation into the alleged persecution of the employees of the Public B ...

The Public Defender of Georgia is responding to the imposition of the obligation of non-disclosure on the lawyers of those accused in connection with the murder of Giorgi Shakarashvili and considers t ...

On August 3, 2020, the Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Prosecutor General of Georgia with a proposal not to extradite Vadim Altman, a citizen of the Republic of Ukraine, to the Russian Federa ...

During the pandemic, the remote administration of criminal justice and electronic court hearings became the subject of Public Defender’s particular attention. From May 18 to June 22, the Public ...

On behalf of the Public Defender’s Office of Georgia, we once again express our sincere sympathy over the death of Giorgi Shakarashvili. After teenagers were killed on Khorava Street, it has bee ...

The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is marked on June 26. Given that the Public Defender performs the functions of the National Preventive Mechanism under the Optional Protocol ...

How did the use of rubber bullets start and why could not it be ceased for almost 5 hours? How many people were injured? Who is to be held accountable, according to the Public Defender?

The Public Defender's Office examined a case of a convict placed in Penitentiary Establishment No. 2 and found that the process of assessing the risks of danger of the convict contained significant vi ...

The Parliament of Georgia has taken into account some of the opinions of the Public Defender relating to the amendments to the Law on Public Health and the Criminal Procedure Code. The draft amendment ...

Amid the novel coronavirus epidemic in Georgia, the Public Defender of Georgia and the Special Preventive Group paid visits to penitentiary establishments nos. 17, 5 and 8. The purpose of the visits w ...