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DRI: Voters most critical towards Georgian Dream will no longer be able to participate in the elections

Georgian Dream’s new initiative, according to which polling stations abroad will no longer be opened during the Georgian parliamentary elections and voters critical towards the party will be restricted from going to polls, is unconstitutional. 

18.11.2025
Granting Government Administration unlimited access to tax and personal data is another step towards total control

GD parliament has expedited the consideration of a draft law, through which the Government Administration will be granted unlimited access to tax and personal data, including special category data, kept in public institutions. 

13.11.2025
Georgian Dream accelerates Georgia’s isolation from the democratic world by charges of sabotage and banning of parties

After the European Commission published a harsh assessment about Georgia, the Prosecutor’s Office charged opposition leaders with serious crimes against the State.

06.11.2025
DRI: Repressive legislative amendments completely abolish freedom of assembly and expression

DRI echoes another repressive and authoritarian legislative initiative intorduced in the one-party Parliament, the purpose of which is to completely disregard the right to assembly and expression.

13.10.2025
ქართული უფლებადაცვითი ორგანიზაციების ერთობლივი განცხადება

იურიდიული დახმარების ქსელი ყოველდღიურ რეჟიმში შეზღუდული რესურსებით აგრძელებს შეკრებისა და გამოხატვის თავისუფლებით სარგებლობისას დაზარალებული პირების უფლებების დაცვას.

10.10.2025
DRI: Information released by a former judge requires independent and impartial investigation

DRI echoes the video recording released on October 2, in which former judge Besarion Alavidze speaks about numerous facts of threats/pressure exerted against him.

03.10.2025
Threats, intimidation and political control by the head of the State Security Service against freedom of expression

The new head of the State Security Service, Mamuka Mdinaradze, made a number of threatening statements in an interview with Imedi TV on October 1.

02.10.2025
Illegal arrests and borderization — Georgian citizens still targeted by Russian occupation

On September 27, Russian occupation forces abducted 4 minors from the occupation line in the village of Tamarasheni, Kareli district. 

29.09.2025
Another target of repressions of Ivanishvili-Kuprashvili’s Anti-Corruption Bureau is Democracy Research Institute

On September 24, DRI received a letter from Ivanishvili-Kuprashvili’s Anti-Corruption Bureau, according to which proceedings are underway to check the compliance of the activities of the DRI with the Law of Georgia on Grants. 

24.09.2025
Crisis in the de facto South Ossetian healthcare system and persecution of medical personnel

A number of problems in the de facto healthcare system highlight the deep systemic failures that have led the healthcare system of South Ossetia to an acute crisis.

23.09.2025