August 30 marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances and it has been celebrated since 2011. The enforced disappearance is often deliberately used as an instrument to subject ...

Based on media reports, the Public Defender, on his own initiative, started to study the case of pushing the 22-year-old young man, D.S., to committing suicide in the village of Dafnari, Samtredia mun ...

On August 22, 2016, the Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a recommendation, according to which, an applicant with disabilities was subjected to direct discrimi ...

On August 19, 2016, the Public Defender addressed Tbilisi Mayor Davit Narmania with a recommendation and demanded annulment of his order on a special (zonal) agreement, according to which, constructio ...

On August 23 Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili sent a letter of invitation to UN Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers Mónica Pinto. The aim of the invitation is to study the ...

According to the State Security Service, seven citizens of Georgia were arrested on 22 August 2016 on different charges in connection with planning a terror attack. According to media reports, a famil ...

Video footage showing torture and degrading treatment was released on the Internet on August 15, 2016. Persons, shown in the video, can be identified and therefore, the release of the video recordings ...

On August 12, 2016, the Department of Gender Equality of the Public Defender's Office monitored the Kutaisi shelter – service center for victims of domestic violence, which is administered by th ...

The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia has partly fulfilled the Public Defender’s recommendation to compensate internal ...

On August 10, 2016, representatives of the Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Division of the Public Defender's Office met with workers of a railway construction company in Kharagauli and got ...

The Public Defender of Georgia expresses concern with regard to the physical and verbal abuse of citizen R.K. by members of the Socialist Party in the city of Telavi on August 4, 2016. According to me ...

An integrated youth festival was organized within the framework of the civic education program Future Generation by the Akhaltsikhe Youth Center in cooperation with the Public Defender’s Samtskh ...