Tomorrow, on September 5, on behalf of Salome Zourabishvili GYLA will apply to the administrative board of Tbilisi City Court for invalidation of the resolution #64/2013 of the chairman of the Central Election Commission refusing to register Salome Zourabishvili as a candidate for the 2013 presidential elections.
2013-09-04 03:51 See moreAccording to the information released on the web-page of the TV Company “Tabula”, on August 24, 2013 while recording police raids in Tbilisi, Patrol Police stopped Giorgi Sikharulidze, the journalist from “Tabula”. As Tabula reports, Police abused the journalist verbally, searched him and destroyed the filmed video.
2013-08-29 06:37 See moreOn August 26, rights of Muslim population were grossly violated by dismantling mosque minaret in the village Chela of Adigeni Municipality by employees of the customs’ departments of the revenue service of the Ministry of Finance and abusing local residents physically by law-enforcement representatives. None of the recent facts (Nigvziani, Tsintskaro, Samtatskaro) of threats towards the Muslim community, their persecution, creation of obstacles to performance of their religious rituals or hooliganism were followed by the relevant punishment of law offenders. Inadequate, discriminatory and inefficient actions of the state resulted in systemic nature of harassment of Muslims based on religious grounds.
2013-08-29 06:28 See moreThe document has been prepared on the basis of the Organic Law of Georgia “Election Code of Georgia,” “Law of Georgia on Broadcasting”, Resolution # 9 of August 15, 2012 of the Georgian National Communications’ Commission and the Resolution #42 of August 19, 2013 of the Central Election Commission. In case of introducing amendments to the relevant legislation, answers to the frequently asked questions will be updated. GYLA’s Media Legal Defense Center is eager to provide legal aid on election issues to media representatives.
2013-08-28 08:07 See moreGeorgian Young Lawyers' Association became a finalist of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Competition held by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The price is awarded to a person or organization for distinguished service in human rights’ field. Human rights organizations operating in Europe and other countries are eligible to participate in the competition.
2013-08-27 01:11 See moreGeorgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) makes a statement on wide scale pardoning initiative of the President of Georgia (extinguishing of previous convictions, additional punishments and probation sentences).
2013-08-26 08:34 See moreThe Media Advocacy Coalition shares argumentation on alienation of the TV Channel 9 and INFO 9. Furthermore, we as an organization protecting media rights are concerned about the perspective of selling the company in force-majeure since we see the risk to transfer the TV Company in the hands of a politically biased person or a group and to become the propaganda tool. Such decision will affect directly media pluralism as well as media market.
2013-08-26 07:42 See moreOn August 23, 2013 NGOs working on electoral issues nominated Ms. Tamar Zhvania for the position of the chairperson of the Central Election Commission. Ms. Tamar Zhvania is the manager of the UNDP project: Promoting Credible and Sustainable Electoral Institutions and Processes. Ms. Zhvania has an extensive working experience on election-related responsible positions. For the past five years she has been in charge of UNDP Georgia’s electoral assistance program and supervised EU-UNDP joint project. She has worked on electoral issues abroad, including as international program manager in National Democratic Institute (NDI). Moreover, Ms. Zhvania has been a representative of international observation in different countries as part of the missions of OSCE/ODIHR, NDI and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Her electoral engagement starts from 2000 in the civil sector. In the period of 2004- 2007 she was an executive director of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED).
2013-08-26 05:44 See moreFor the past several days the Ministry of Interior held some wide scale police raids in the capital which raised concern of the part of population. Policemen stopped and searched pedestrians and vehicles and inspected private documentation of citizens. As reported, sometimes policemen wrote down personal information of individuals (name, father's name, address, phone number) and took photos of them by mobile phones. We consider that often implemented activities were illegal and violated human rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
2013-08-26 04:47 See moreOn August 12, 2013, Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association held a meeting with local non-governmental organizations and population in its Gori Office to mark the International Youth Day celebrated under the theme of youth migration. During the meeting project Promoting Well Managed Migration between EU and Georgia was also presented.
2013-08-12 05:56 See more