“Crime rates have not increased even after such an unprecedented amnesty releasing up to 60% of the prisoners. We were expecting the situation to chan...

On 25 July 2014, while discussing the new cabinet in parliamentary committees, MPs and government

“There were 108 murders in 2011 and 74 of them got media coverage. In 2013, 50 out of 52 murders were covered by the mass media.”

On 25 July 2014, while discussing the new cabinet in parliamentary committees, crime statistics

“There have been no cases of human rights violations in the pre-detention centres. Foreign experts visited Georgia for a second time, studied the situ...

On 4 June 2014, Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili, made a statement during his

“According to the Criminal Code, it is possible to commence proceedings based upon a fact, not a suicide. “

On 15 July, at an extra plenary session of the Parliament, Davit Darchiashvili talked about the

”Since 2004, officers, who worked at the Fire Safety Office had no longer been considered as employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and had not...

Levan Izoria, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, presented a bill on public safety at

“The Ministry is absolutely transparent and open. Show interest, ask for statistics…”

On 4 April 2014, the Prime Minister of Georgia held a press conference. One of the journalists

“Public order and morals are the circumstances which may outweigh discrimination during evaluation, so that the action may be considered as justified ...

Eka Beselia, Member of the Parliamentary Majority, stated the following at the plenary session of

”I do not need any additional authority. I have the proper authority to sign the [Association Agreement]”

The President of Georgia issued a Decree on 27 May 2014 according to which the Prime Minister was

“This [bill] implies that the [bank] account of every citizen of Georgia and the [bank] account of every business organization will be controlled by t...

Amendments to the Law of Georgia on Facilitating the Prevention of Illicit Income Legalization were

“Last year, the government pledged and utterly fulfilled a commitment to boost the salaries of judges by 70%-80%… There has been no such precedent for...

On 8 April 2014, the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili, made the following statement:

“According to the current [Organic] Law [of Georgia on Citizenship of Georgia], in order to obtain Georgian citizenship, a person first had to submit ...

On 3 April 2014, the Organic Law of Georgia on Citizenship of Georgia was discussed at the plenary

“The present special rule [extension of customs duties for a certain category of importers] contradicts the Constitution, the Tax Code of Georgia and ...

On 19 March 2014, Member of the Parliamentary Majority, Zurab Tkemaladze, presented a draft bill of

“You have put 300,000 persons on trial over nine years.”

Gigla Agulashvili speaks about the 2013 harvest and wine export

On 21 February 2014, while delivering a speech at the plenary session of the Parliament of Georgia,

“Alienation of state property by President Saakashvili to his family members for only one lari was a corruption scheme… like he did in the case of one...

On 19 November 2013, Ministerial candidates met Members of the Parliamentary Minority. While