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The United States has sharply criticized Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, for rushing legislation last week that Washington says “undermined” government accountability, the independence of judges, and overall faith in the judiciary.
Lawyers for former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili have expressed concerns about his health following his transfer overnight from a military hospital in Gori to a prison in Rustavi.
Opposition protesters in the Abkhaz capital, Sukhumi, have attempted to force their way through a security perimeter of buses and other obstacles surrounding the de facto parliament of the breakaway Georgian region.
Several thousand supporters of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili took to the streets in protest in the wake of a report by an independent medical commission finding that he had been "tortured" while in custody.
An independent group of doctors has examined jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and determined that his health has been seriously compromised as a result of "torture" and mistreatment he had allegedly experienced since his arrest in early October.
Scuffles between police and former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's supporters took place outside Tbilisi City Court on November 29, as it heard a new case against him for the violent dispersal of a 2007 protest.
Mikheil Saakashvili has told a court in Tbilisi he was "tortured" during his pretrial detention before the judge adjourned the proceedings until December 23 amid scuffles outside the court between police and the former president's supporters.
Georgia's jailed former President Mikheil Saakashvili has been moved to a military hospital and will end a 50-day hunger strike, his lawyer and doctor said.
Ukraine's ombudswoman has been barred from seeing hunger striking former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is a Ukrainian citizen, in a prison hospital in Georgia.
Supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili marched in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on November 15, demanding his immediate transfer from a prison hospital to a civilian clinic. They say the former Georgian president's health is failing while he is on a hunger strike.
Georgia's Special Penitentiary Service has again barred former President Mikheil Saakashvili from attending his trial on embezzlement charges, saying it created a security risk.
Hundreds of supporters of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili have gathered in the capital to hold rallies demanding the politician's transfer to a civilian medical clinic as his health fails due to a hunger strike.
Hundreds of supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili held a rally in Tbilisi on November 11, demanding the transfer of the jailed former Georgian President to a civilian clinic following the release of a Georgian Special Penitentiary Service video showing his November 8 transfer to a prison infirmary.
Jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has agreed to follow a call by the European Court of Human Rights to end his hunger strike if he is transferred to a civilian clinic from a prison hospital.
Police in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, have arrested dozens of protesters demanding the release of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Hundreds of Saakashvili supporters rallied outside government buildings and in front of a courtroom where his trial started on November 10.
Police in Tbilisi have arrested dozens of protesters demanding the release of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, as his trial in a case related to the dispersal of a 2007 opposition rally kicked off in Georgia's capital.
Jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month, says he has been abused by guards in the prison hospital he was transferred to on November 8 and fears for his life.
Georgia will require people to present a COVID-19 "green pass" from December 1 to enter many establishments, the government says.
Jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month, has been transferred to a prison hospital.
Hundreds of supporters of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili rallied on November 6 in the town of Rustavi, near the prison where he is being held. Saakashvili has been on a hunger strike since he was jailed on October 1, hours after returning to the country after an eight-year absence.
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