Issued by Transparency International SecretariatTransparency International is deeply concerned by the political crisis and backlash against independent civil society groups in Georgia, which risk harming democratic progress in the country and u

 Verbal and physical confrontations in the state legislature have been a subject for discussion in the public. The Parliament of Georgia adopted the Code of Ethics on February 22th of 2019, but the statute of the Ethics Council is yet to be appr

 Today, on November 22, the Advisory Council of the Georgian Public Broadcaster’s Adjara Television and Radio will elect a new director. Transparency International Georgia is closely monitoring the process and is calling on the Advisory Co

 Since the constitutional draft law, initiated for complete shift to the proportional elections in the Parliament of Georgia by 2020, has failed to be adopted, the protesters in Georgia demanded a modification of the current mixed electoral syst

 The court has, at this point, heard the cases of only 12 of the 37 demonstrators who were arrested at the protest of November 18. Ten of them were sentenced to administrative detention, one was fined, and one was given a verbal warning. The jud

 In light of the ongoing tense political developments in the country, we are calling on the government: To reject the use of any type of force against the demonstrators and avoid the escalation of the situation, which could potentially result in

 November 15, 2019Dear President Stanishev,Dear Secretary-General Post,We, the undersigned representatives of the Georgian civil society organizations and civic activists, would like to address you at this important moment in the history of mode

 The Executive Director of Transparency International Georgia, Eka Gigauri, addressed 750 Members of the European Parliament with a letter to notify them about the situation in Georgia after the ruling party backtracked on the promised constitut

 Today the Parliament of Georgia downvoted the draft constitutional amendments that envisaged holding the upcoming parliamentary elections in 2020 through a fully proportional election system. The decision of the Georgian Dream to backtrack on t

 We, the signatory organizations, respond to the denial of granting legal status to the victims of June 20-21 events and we call upon the Prosecutor’s Office to grant the victim status to all the injured people promptly and to conduct a ti