The Democracy Research Institute (DRI) has submitted a report on the humanitarian and human rights situation in the occupied territories of Georgia to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution entitled “Cooperation with Georgia”, as a result of which, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights publishes a report detailing the humanitarian and human rights situation in the occupied territories of Georgia.[1]
The DRI report focused on the following issues:
- Borderization and arrests of Georgian citizens
- Restrictions on freedom of movement and aggravated humanitarian situation
- Right to health and access to medical services (Covid-19)
- Restrictions on the right to receive education in the mother tongue in Gali and Akhalgori
- Cases of persecution and harassment (Tamar Mearakishvili)
- Systemic practices of torture and inhuman treatment, cases of ineffective investigation and impunity (Inal Jabiev, Davit Basharuli, Giga Otkhozoria, Irakli Kvaratskhelia, Archil Tatunashvili, etc.)
- Military bases of the Russian Federation in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia and their impact on human rights
The UN Human Rights Council has been adopting a resolution on the occupied territories of Georgia since 2017.
The report prepared by DRI can be found hereრუსეთი ბოლო პერიოდში აქტიურად ცდილობს ოკუპირებული ტერიტორების საკითხის წინ წამოწევას და საქართველოსგან ამ ტერიორების სამართლებრივად ჩამოშორებას.
In Georgia, while 2024–2026 is described as a period of significant deterioration in media rights, signs of increased state-led political influence over independent and public-interest media had become visible earlier.
Since 2024, Georgia’s legal and institutional framework has been changing at an unusually rapid pace.
