Near Georgian Parliament Participants protesters collect letters to detained comrades

January 09, 2025 23:17

• Lawyers: court in Chechnya violates Musaeva’s right to defence

  A notification of an advocate an hour and a half before the start of the hearing at the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, which left Zarema Musaeva in custody in the case on disorganization of the activities of the penal colony, violated the equality of the parties and the defendant’s right to defence.

January 09, 2025 22:56

• In Tbilisi, students of seven universities demand to hold new parliamentary elections

  In Tbilisi, students of seven higher education institutions hold protest actions with the demand to release the people arrested during protests against the suspension of Georgia’s European integration and to hold new parliamentary elections.

January 09, 2025 22:46

• Family of escaped Dagestani Zaira Pirova offers her to return home

  Zaira Pirova, a native of Dagestan, who fled to Georgia, has contacted her relatives, but was unable to convince them that she had left home voluntarily. She said that she missed her family. The girl's father gave her two days to think about it and promised that if she returned, she would be "treated specially."

January 08, 2025 23:34

• Rights defenders refute abduction version of Dagestani Zaira Pirova

  The father of Zaira Pirova, who fled from Dagestan to Georgia, claims that his daughter was abducted and is kept under a threat to execute her family. However, human rights defenders object stating that Zaira had left home voluntarily and left Russia because of her relatives' attempts to find her.

January 08, 2025 20:52

• In Tbilisi, protestors claim connection between Christmas and Georgia’s European future

  In Tbilisi, participants of the protest actions admitted that they came to Rustaveli Square on Christmas night to remind people of humanity and the need to continue the country’s European path.