On October 21, hearings began at Georgia’s Constitutional Court in Batumi on Georgian Dream’s constitutional complaint seeking to ban political parties. In its complaint, Georgian Dream is seeking to have the activities of all five major opposition political parties declared unconstitutional and…
იხილე სრულად: batumelebi.netgazeti.ge ↗The case has drawn criticism from Georgian civil society and European officials, while opposition representatives challenge the evidence and legal grounds for the proposed bans. Georgia’s Constitutional Court began hearings on 21 October 2026 on a constitutional complaint brought by 88 MPs from…
By decision of Georgian Dream, refusing to recognize constitutional bodies will become a criminal offense. The announcement was made on February 16 during a session of the Legal Affairs Committee in the Georgian Dream parliament, as lawmakers discussed another restrictive amendment to the law on…
On April 24, Tbilisi City Court has terminated proceedings in yet another defamation lawsuit brought by journalist Mzia Amaglobeli against Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. The hearing was held in Kobakhidze’s absence, as neither he nor his legal representative attended court. The…
Tbilisi City Court Judge Liana Kajashvili has fully upheld the civil lawsuit filed by Georgian Dream propagandist film director Goga Khaindrava against the critical TV broadcaster Formula TV. The court ordered “Shabatis Formula” to retract the “materially false statements containing information…
Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, has passed a restrictive legislative package that substantially broadens the definition of grants, criminalizes non-recognition of constitutional bodies, and imposes new restrictions on civil society, political engagement, and public expression. The new law…
Judge Zviad Tsekvava found four of the ten protesters detained during a demonstration outside Tbilisi City Council on 26 July guilty of administrative offences after merging their cases into a single hearing. The court handed down the following penalties: Tornike Toshkhua – fined 3,000 GEL Mariam…
The court hearing of Eliso Kiladze, founder of Qronika+, was closed at the request of the prosecution. The defendant herself opposed the prosecution’s motion, stating that, as a journalist, publicity is of fundamental importance to her. Kiladze’s statement prior to the closure of the hearing was…
Georgia’s Supreme Court has declined to consider the appeal of Mzia Amaglobeli, co-founder and director of the independent media outlets Batumelebi and Netgazeti. Under Georgia’s legal system, a Supreme Court decision to declare an appeal inadmissible means the court will not review the merits or…
On April 23, Batumi City Court was due to hear another case involving imprisoned Georgian journalist and Sakharov Prize laureate Mzia Amaglobeli, but the hearing was postponed until May 11. The case concerns an incident on January 11, 2025, when Amaglobeli placed a sticker on the fence of the…
On March 30, the Prosecutor’s Office brought a new charge against a Georgian opposition politicion Aleksandre (Aleko) Elisashvili. This time, he is accused of starting a fire in the archive building of the Tbilisi City Court. The prosecution alleges that, Elisashvili set the fire in the court…
On August 18, former Georgian Dream leader and former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has issued another statement, which he announced yesterday. Garibashvili says that the letter published yesterday was sent to him in July by one of Georgian Dream’s leaders, Mamuka Mdinaradze. According to…
Judge Giorgi Arevadze sentenced Georgian opposition leader and mother of four, Elene Khoshtaria, to one and a half years in prison for writing “Russian Dream” with a marker on an election banner of Kakha Kaladze, “causing damage estimated by the prosecution at 570 GEL”. Earlier, the same judge…
