Today, in Tbilisi City Court, one of the defendants in the case of July 5 mass violence made a threatening statement against affected journalist Rati Tsverava, after he called the participants in violence “bastards”.

DRI condemns the brutal violence against designer Giorgi Maskhulia and considers the bullying of the victim, use of hate speech and comments of homophobic/transphobic content posted on social networks categorically unacceptable.

The Democracy Research Institute (DRI) protects the legal interests of IDPs living in the Potskhoetseri IDP settlement in the Tsalenjikha municipality and the Tbilisi Sea sanatorium Kartli.

DRI has appealed to the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia to create a 24-hour hotline for the population of the occupied territories.

For the second year in a row, the Government of Georgia has been working without a document of human rights strategy, which makes any human rights activity carried out by public institutions fragmented and uncoordinated.

On February 4, 2022, representatives of the Democracy Research Institute DRI) visited the village of Atotsi located near the occupation line.