It has been three months since approval of Tbilisi City budget is a matter of contention between the majority of Tbilisi City Assembly and the minority of the Assembly, which supports Tbilisi Mayor’s Office. According to the Georgian legislation, if

On March 13, the IPN news agency released MP Levan Bezhashvili’s statement according to which Mr. Bezhashvili stated the following at the session of the Parliament Bureau: "after it became known that the phone conversation between Gigi Ugulava and hi

A group of non-governmental organizations has launched This Affects You, a campaign against illegal surveillance. The campaign aims to change the existing practice of surveillance by law enforcement agencies in Georgia and to amend the law to render

Participating organizations of the campaign entitled, 'This Affects You – They Are Still Listening,' welcome the statement made by Alexandre Chikaidze, Minister for Internal Affairs of Georgia, on 6 March. In the statement, he noted that the Ministry

Unchecked illegal surveillance by the law enforcement bodies has been a major concern in Georgia for the past several years. Using special technical equipment, investigative bodies were wiretapping phones of journalists, civil society representatives

For immediate releaseTbilisi, March 12, 2014 – Transparency International Georgia has published its new report  "Competition Policy and the Competition Regulatory Authority in Georgia”. The report examines the existing institutional framework of

  At the end of February, the audit department of the Revenue Service (a legal entity of public law operating under the Ministry of Finance of Georgia) launched an inventory check of the company TV MR GE. This company is the licensed representa

On December 2, 2013, Zaza Azariashvili, a former prisoner and victim of torture, lodged a complaint into the Chief Prosecutor's Office through the legal assistance from the Human Rights Center and demanded an investigation into the facts of torture t

The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, Transparency International Georgia, and the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association welcome the readiness of the ruling coalition to raise the electoral threshold by up to 50% in the local self-

On February 5, 2014 Parliament adopted the new Local Self-Government Code as part of which amendments were made to the Law on Public Service as well. The amendments to the Law on Public Service contain a provision under which all civil servants emplo