Judicial Reform
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 10:09
The main issues of discussions were the internal and foreign policy of the country, as well as the fact of summoning former President Mikheil Saakashvili to the Prosecutor for questioning and issue of Vano Merabishvili.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 10:08
Meanwhile, the US State Department appears to have some questions of its own for Tbilisi. A March 23 statement related to the summons expressed concern "about political retribution" and urged Georgia "to focus the nation's energies" elsewhere.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 10:04
First, Prosecutor General Giorgi Badashvili has bowed to pressure from a faction within the Georgian leadership that still considers Saakashvili and the ENM a threat and wants them discredited and neutralized at all cost, despite the probable backlash.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 10:00
Ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili said his summoning by Georgian prosecutors for questioning is part of “Ivanishvili-Putin game” and he’s not going to make “Putin’s dreams come true” by arriving in Tbilisi for interrogation.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 09:56
From the outset, political commentators and fellow oppositionists construed the arrest of Mammadov and Yaqublu as a preemptive strike against the opposition in the run-up to the October presidential election.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 09:43
An effectively functioning justice system with the appropriate skills mix is key to an investor-friendly business climate and access to justice for vulnerable and marginalized population.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 08:30
An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges including murder, a defence lawyer said, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 08:02
The speed of the case, and the severity of the outcome, are unprecedented in Egypt, according to legal sources.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 07:46
On Sunday famed blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fatah and Ahmed Abdel Rahman were ordered released on EGP 10,000 bail pending a 6 April trial for staging a demonstration outside the Shura Council building on 26 November.