Labour safety standards were not effectively enforced causing high levels of injuries and fatalities at work and prompting strengthening of labour rights legislation. Electoral rules were changed to ensure greater representation of women in Parliament. Authorities continued to use disproportionate...

Reacting to the news that Nika Gvaramia, the head of the Georgian pro-opposition TV channel Mtavari, has been released from detention after being pardoned by President Salome Zourabichvili, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia said: Nika...

Responding to the news that the Parliament of Georgia has announced its intention to withdraw repressive bills on “foreign agents” following mass protests in Tbilisi, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The authorities have finally pledged...

Georgia’s parliament should firmly reject the two bills it is debating that would require individuals, civil society organizations, and media outlets to register with the Ministry of Justice as “agents of foreign influence” if they receive at least 20 percent of their funds from abroad, Human...

Georgian authorities are denying former President Mikheil Saakashvili adequate medical care, putting him at grave risk of death, permanent disability or other irreversible damage to his health, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have yet to respond to concerns...

The Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and a pervasive focus on ‘traditional values’ have contributed to a deterioration in human rights and rising levels of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Amnesty International said...

Responding to the news that a court in Georgia has sentenced Nika Gvaramia, the owner and director of pro-opposition news channel Mtavari TV, to three-and-a-half years in prison for abusing his position and harming the financial interests of a television station he had previously ran, Marie...

Reacting to the news that the office of Tbilisi Pride have been ransacked and activists and journalists attacked, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The violence against Tbilisi Pride organizers, activists and journalists was as...

As the European Court of Human Rights considers a landmark case on climate change brought by six young people from Portugal against 33 European countries, Amnesty International and other human rights organizations and academics have intervened in the case today. They have provided the Court with...

Georgian police this morning stormed the headquarters of the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party in Tbilisi, and arrested the party’s leader Nika Melia and dozens of others. Police reportedly using batons and chemical irritants against UNM supporters who allegedly tried to block police...

Governments in Eastern European and Central Asian countries are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with repressive and abusive measures which fall far short of their human rights obligations, Amnesty International said today. The organization has released a new briefing Eastern Europe and Central...

Russia’s and the de facto authorities’ attempts to physically demarcate a boundary between the breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia/Tskhinvali Region and the rest of Georgia have led to severe restrictions on freedom of movement and other human rights violations, with families...

Amnesty International is calling for an immediate, thorough and independent investigation into use of force by riot police in Georgia, after protestors in Tbilisi were hit with rubber bullets and tear gas. Levan Asatiani, Senior Campaigner for South Caucasus, was on the ground in Tbilisi and said:...