Unrestricted secret eavesdropping by the law enforcement authorities has been a serious issue in Georgia for years already. The investigation authorities had been eavesdropping and carrying out surveillance on ordinary Georgian citizens, journalists, civil society representatives, political activists, defense lawyers, clerics and other persons for years, without any oversight and permission.
2014-03-06 20:23 See moreWith GYLA’s assistance some individuals were relived from administrative liability • GYLA’s Kutaisi branch protected B.M.’s interests in the court who was found guilty in the administrative offence by the November 2, 2013 decision of Samtredia regional court and was fined GEL 500.
2014-03-06 12:15 See moreGYLA lodged a lawsuit in the Constitutional Court and challenged constitutionality of the Criminal Procedure norm, which considers inadmissible only the evidences obtained in violation of requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code, while it regards admissible evidences obtains in violation of other laws.
2014-03-05 06:14 See moreAs reported, on March 4, 2014 at about 2:30 a.m. an inmate died in Geguti #14 penitentiary as a result of confrontation between prisoners. The incident happened in a cell with five inmates there. According to the initial information, the deceased prisoner has numerous injuries, including in the area of head and a throat. The exact cause of death will be known after conduct of examination. Investigation has been launched on the case.
2014-03-05 02:59 See moreOn February 27, 2014 the Constitutional Court of Georgia delivered the judgment on the case "Ilia Chanturia v. the Parliament of Georgia". GYLA represented interests of the applicant Ilia Chanturia in the Constitutional Court. The applicant challenged constitutionality of the provision of the Civil Procedure Code, which envisaged eviction of the party to the process or his/her lawyer from the trial or their penalization for contempt of the court, without giving chance to submit any explanation about their conduct. Moreover, evicted or penalized individual was also deprived of the opportunity to appeal the court decision in the superior instance.
2014-02-28 05:22 See moreToday, on February 28, 2014 GYLA arranged the presentation-exhibition in OSGF office about Sakdrisi-Khachiani. At the event GYLA submitted official information about Sakdrisi- Khachiani received from the Government of Georgia, the Ministry of Culture and Historic Monuments Protection and the National Agency for Protection of Cultural Heritage. There were also documents that were unknown to the society at large till now.
2014-02-28 03:55 See moreThe renewed opendata.ge will be launched on February 27, 2014 – the most voluminous online database in Georgia. The portal serves to improve level of transparency and accountability of the government.
2014-02-27 03:57 See moreOn February 5, 2014 Parliament adopted the new Local Self-Government Code as part of which amendments were made to the Law on Public Service as well. The amendments to the Law on Public Service contain a provision under which all civil servants employed at local self-government bodies, including those appointed through competition, shall be considered as serving ad interim after the scheduled 2014 local elections, following which competitions shall be announced for the vacated positions.
2014-02-25 03:40 See moreMr. Irakli, As far as you know, in September 2011 Georgia joined the international initiative “Open Government Partnership - OGP”, initiator of which is the President of the United States Mr. Barak Obama. OGP is a key platform for development of government transparency and accountability through involvement of citizens, and improvement of innovations and technologies in the format of joint cooperation of the civil society and government. Today, OGP unites more than 60 states.
2014-02-21 02:46 See moreWe, Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy and Transparency International Georgia welcome the readiness of the ruling coalition in terms of raising an election barrier up to 50% for the upcoming municipal elections. As it is known, according to the initial decision of the ruling coalition, 40 % vote threshold was set for election of city mayors, while 33 % election barrier was envisaged for local governors that was not supported by us. We, alternatively, asked to impose 50% vote threshold for all elected high officials (Mayors/ local governors). In view of this, we consider that increase of the election barrier up to 50% is a positive amendment, which will reinforce the legitimacy of directly elected high officials.
2014-02-20 04:05 See more