Adjaria

• January 17, 2025 23:18

  Human rights defenders point to political motives for founder of Georgian opposition media Amaglobeli’s arrest

  The “Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association” (GYLA) non-governmental organization (NGO) has called the arrest of Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the “Netgazeti” and “Batumelebi” online publications, politically motivated.

• January 14, 2025 21:18

  Ombudsperson demands investigation of law enforcers’ actions during detentions in Batumi

  Three out of the ten people detained at the protest action in Batumi demanded an investigation into the law enforcers’ actions, and one of the detainees claimed being beaten. A criminal case has been instituted against Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the “Batumelebi” and “Netgazeti” online publications for attacking a police officer.

• January 06, 2025 23:48

  Students demand to release actors detained at protests in Tbilisi

  In Tbilisi, protesters intentionally went out into the streets wearing masks, thereby violating the recently introduced ban. Students from two universities have joined the demands to release actors Andro Chichinadze and Vepkhiya Kasradze, who are accused of participating in group violence.

• July 01, 2022 23:58

  Beating of “Pirveli” TV cameraman highlights problem of pressure on media in Adjara

  Murman Zoidze, a cameraman of the “Pirveli” TV Company, continues to work as usual. But after an attack on him, Adjarian journalists proceed with increased caution, as the local media are to cover stories that cause public outcry and its employees often face aggression, including from officials.

• June 04, 2022 23:48

  Rights defenders demand to simplify granting housing to IDPs in Batumi

  The forced migrants (or internally displaced persons – IDPs) living in the Batumi neighbourhood "Dream City" should receive new housing according to the criteria of their social vulnerability; the emphasis on granting housing based on registration is fraught with conflicts, activists of the NGO "Centre for Social Justice" assert.

• May 07, 2022 19:54

  Over 20 Saakashvili supporters detained during protest in Batumi

  Last night, in Batumi, clashes broke out of law enforcers with supporters of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, after policemen demanded to remove the tents set up by activists. As a result, more than 20 protesters were detained.

• February 16, 2022 17:43

  Historians report about search for remains of victims of Stalinist terror in Khelvachauri

  Signs on the remains from a mass grave in Khelvachauri indicate that they belong to victims of the Stalinist repressions, scientists point out. Among the victims of terror in Adzharia were not only Georgians, but also Abkhazians, Russians, Germans, and Poles.

• September 25, 2021 15:02

  Georgia: 70 families cut off from outside world by landslides

  Landslides caused by a heavy rainfall have blocked the road to a village in the Lanchkhuti District of Georgia, where 40 families live, and to a village in the Ozurgeti District, inhabited by 30 families.

• September 24, 2021 23:46

  Pandemic threatens Kobuleti hoteliers' businesses

  Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourists would not visit Adjara; and the owners of small hotels suffer losses and cannot pay off their loans, entrepreneurs in the city of Kobuleti have complained, insisting that authorities should help hoteliers in solving their problems with banks.

• August 28, 2021 23:58

  The authorities offer Adjara hoteliers to solve their problems with banks by their own

  The hotel owners, who staged a protest at the building of the Kobuleti Mayoralty, have achieved meeting with officials and asked them to help with deferring payments on bank loans. The officials advised the borrowers to solve their problems with banks by themselves.

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