For the past few days, a new law passed by the Georgian Dream party has been requiring people arrested for protesting on the sidewalk to appear in court. They are accused of "blocking the sidewalk for pedestrian traffic" —an accusation based solely on the fact that they were standing on the sidewalk (i.e., in the area designated for pedestrians). These people would most likely have had to spend New Year's Eve, Christmas, and the following days in prison cells, had it not bee

European rectors’ conferences from Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia have issued a rare joint warning over recent developments in Georgia’s higher education sector. In a coordinated statement, they express serious concern that the Georgian government’s newly published National Concept for Higher Education Reform threatens to dismantle university autonomy, undermine academic freedom and place universities under direct political control. The signatories call on the Georgian

The judge of the Tetritskaro District Court, Vladimer Khutchua , is today practically the only judge who has broken the prevailing silence within Georgia’s judiciary and openly confronted the injustice entrenched in the court system. His name became widely known to the public particularly after the parliamentary elections of 2024. Since then, Vladimer Khutchua  has been associated with fair, principled, precedent-setting cases of significant public importance. The judge from