Detention of ethnic Georgians on charges of espionage continue in occupied Abkhazia.
DRI echoes the latest anti-democratic legislative package adopted by GD, party which introduces amendments to the Law on Grants that ultimately
establishes a mechanism of total legal control.
Since the end of 2025, the movement permits of most residents of the Akhalgori district have expired.
The detention of Abkhaz lawyer Irakli Bzhinava in Russia on February 5 appears to be part of the Kremlin’s ongoing effort to advance the annexation of Abkhazia.
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.
