The Parliament of Georgia is considering draft of amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, envisaging important changes that will have an essential influence on criminal proceedings and justice. The civil society organizations highlighted the need to address certain gaps in the draft law; however, overall they welcomed the amendments. The draft of amendments adopted with the second reading is even more flawed that the initial one.
2013-04-30 15:38 See moreOn April 30, 2012, in Batumi GYLA presented results of monitoring the alienation of state property for one GEL. The monitoring has revealed the following:
2013-04-30 10:01 See moreOn April 29, 2013, GYLA presented Results of Monitoring the Rehabilitation of Water Supply System of the City of Kutaisi. GYLA’s research has revealed the following: • There is no unified project of water supply system in Kutaisi. GYLA attempted to receive the project from various administrative agencies and the Unified Water Supply Company of Georgia LLC number of times but in vain. Presumably, a unified project does not exist.
2013-04-29 08:28 See moreGYLA has been monitoring the course of elections in the following election districts: Nadzaladevi N9, Samtredia N54 and Baghdati N52. Notably, the polling process was mostly peaceful and no major violations of the Election Code have been reported. At 13:30 we already updated public on the situation at election districts at that time. With this statement we would like to sum up the course of voting procedures and highlight key violations and trends reported by our observers.
2013-04-27 15:21 See moreRights of journalists were restricted at Nadzaladevi election precinct N24. In particular, reporters of Rezonasi - Salome Sigua, Tamta Kakauridze and Iago Natsvlishvili were insulted verbally by observers of Civil Society and Democracy Center, a non-governmental organization, and the Caucasian Research Center, who identified themselves as representatives of the Georgian Dream. They also attempted to abuse these journalists physically.
2013-04-27 15:20 See moreGYLA’s observers identified unauthorized persons who were acting as observers at Samtredia N38 and Baghdati N12 election precincts. Khoni Sakrebulo Member Levan Bobokhidze, a brother of Akaki Bobokhidze, was monitoring elections in the name of an organization New Generation Democratic Elections, while at Baghdati N12 election precinct Deputy Chairperson of Tskaltubo Sakrebulo Zaza Metreveli was monitoring elections in the name of an organization Future Choice.
2013-04-27 13:13 See moreGYLA has been monitoring the course of elections at the following election districts: Nadzaladevi N9, Samtredia N54 and Baghdati N52. As of 01:30pm, the polling process has been peaceful, election precincts opened on time and observers did not have any problems accessing election precincts. Several procedural violations have been reported at the following election precincts:
2013-04-27 13:00 See moreOn April 27, 2013, parliamentary by-elections will be held in Nadzaladevi N9, Baghdati N52 and Samtredia N54 election districts, where voters will elect their majoritarian representatives in the Parliament of Georgia after three MPs that won their seats in the 2012 parliamentary elections left the parliament to join the executive branch. The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) and Transparency International – Georgia carried out monitoring of processes ahead of the April 27, 2013 parliamentary by-elections.
2013-04-26 13:02 See moreThe Coalition for Independent and Transparent Judiciary responds to vetoing of two bills by the president. Statement of the Coalition about the president’s veto.
2013-04-25 03:05 See moreAccording to the information released today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained Irakli Absandze, editor of the politics unit of the “Liberali” Magazine, who was suspected for drug procurement, storage and transportation as per Article 260, Para 1 of the Penal Code of Georgia envisaging imprisonment for up to 11 years term. As Gagi Mosiashvili, Irakli Absnadze’s lawyer reports, Irakli received a parcel from his friend which allegedly turned to be Marihuana. Irakli did not know what was in the parcel- the lawyer declared.
2013-04-24 02:50 See more