Kitty Jashi

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 been for the fact...

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 Tetritskaro,...

Elections will be held at the Bar Association on December 13th and 14th, in which, in addition to the members of the governing bodies, the president will also be elected. Six candidates have been nominated for the vacant presidency. Normally, due to the nature of this profession, the Bar Association elections receive little public attention. This year, however, the events surrounding one of the controversial candidates for president have brought this election into the public eye. The case...