On December 23, 2025, the Prosecutor's Office of
Georgia indicted the former head of the State Security Service, Grigol
Liluashvili, for taking a particularly large amount of bribe.
The Democracy Research Institute condemns the detention of Georgian civil and human rights activist Tamar Mearakishvili in the occupied Akhalgori.
Georgia marks December 10, 2025 – an international Human Rights Day – virtually without human rights.
The initiative of the GD to abolish the administration of the administrative-territorial unit created on the territory of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Region contradicts the national interests of Georgia.
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.
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.
After the European Commission published a harsh assessment about Georgia, the Prosecutor’s Office charged opposition leaders with serious crimes against the State.
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.
იურიდიული დახმარების ქსელი ყოველდღიურ რეჟიმში შეზღუდული
რესურსებით აგრძელებს შეკრებისა და გამოხატვის თავისუფლებით სარგებლობისას დაზარალებული პირების
უფლებების დაცვას.
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.