1/ An IT specialist Giorgi Kvitsaridze who obtained footage documenting police violence against citizens in Kobuleti police department has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. Georgian Dream punished the person who exposed the alleged crime rather than those who committed it.

#GeorgiaProtests, Day 661 Yesterday, on September 19, another anti-government protest march was held.

“I hope you burn, Putin” - Georgian designer Giorgi Keburia’s message at London Fashion Week.

1/ Former head of the State Security Service Grigol Liluashvili has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The verdict was delivered by Judge Nino Tarashvili on September 16.

1/ Parliamentary majority leader Irakli Kirtskhalia said Georgian Dream will also ask the Constitutional Court to ban the opposition party For Georgia. He made the statement after a meeting of the parliamentary majority.

1/ Gela Geladze has resigned as head of Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG). Geladze said that, following consultations with the political team, he will continue his work in another government agency.

🚨 1/ Georgian prosecutors have charged Giorgi Baramidze, a member of the United National Movement (UNM), under Article 307¹ and Article 318 of the Criminal Code — provisions concerning treason against the homeland and sabotage.

1/ The Ministry of Internal Affairs is accusing civil activist Tornike Razmadze of using offensive and abusive language in a public space.

1/ This is an MRI scan of Alexi Tirkia’s head following injuries he sustained on December 3, 2024, when riot police violently dispersed a protest. #TerrorinGeorgia

1/ Former Georgian Prosecutor General Otar Partskhaladze, who was sanctioned by the US in 2023 for cooperating with Russia’s FSB, has reportedly gone to fight against Ukraine and created a military unit called “Georgievskiy” in the Russian army.

1/ According to the organisation Rights Georgia, on September 4, Tbilisi City Court Judge Leila Poladashvili reviewed and granted, without an oral hearing, a motion by the Migration Department of the MIA to deport pardoned Russian activist Denis Kulanin from Georgia.

Irakli Gharibashvili linked his former teammates, Irakli Kobakhidze and Mamuka Mdinaradze, to the suicides of several people in Georgia over the past few years.

Denis Kulanin sent a letter from prison a few months ago, in which he wrote:

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1/ Prisoner of conscience Denis Kulanin, a Russian national and citizen, will be deported from Georgia to Russia, where he faces serious risks. #TerrorinGeorgia

1/ Prisoner of conscience Denis Kulanin, a Russian national and citizen, will be deported from Georgia to Russia, where he faces serious risks. #TerrorinGeorgia

1/5 Former political prisoner Saba Jikia joined the ongoing protest outside Tbilisi City Hall today. His return to a protest comes just days after his release from prison.

"No Justice, No Peace" #GeorgiaProtests Day 640

⭕ 1/ Abkhaz blogger Daur Buava was found dead in a rented apartment in Tbilisi, according to media reports.

President Mikheil Kavelashvili pardoned those detained during the protests, who had appealed to pardon them: Davit Khomeriki, Saba Jikia (in photos), Daniel Mumladze, Guram Khutashvili, Fridon Bubuteishvili, Tornike Mchedlishvili, Simon Makharadze, and Avtandil Topchishvili.

🚨1/ Mamuka Mdinaradze has left politics. He announced his decision at a briefing.

The pro-Ukrainian march in Tbilisi started at the Ukrainian Embassy and ended at the Taras Shevchenko monument, where police forcibly made the protesters fold the large Ukrainian flag, which they were already going to fold themselves. #GeorgiaProtests

On the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day, a march in support of Ukraine was held today. Anatoly Khrustenko, a representative of the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi, delivered a speech before the march.

Today the Prosecutor's Office has filed new charges against Irakli Gharibashvili for "accepting a bribe in particularly large amounts". The charge carries a prison sentence of 11 to 15 years. The former PM is already serving a five-year sentence for other corruption crimes.

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1/ Georgia’s jailed former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has published another letter, in which he says the Georgian Dream government is blackmailing him with the threat of arresting his 75-year-old father. Read the thread 👇

1/6 The Georgian Studies Program at Harvard University’s Davis Center, operating since 2022, has been suspended due to funding cuts on the Georgian side. The program had been led for years by American scholar and Kartvelologist Professor Steven Jones.

1/ Georgia’s jailed former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has published another letter, in which he says the Georgian Dream government is blackmailing him with the threat of arresting his 75-year-old father. Read the thread 👇

1/ Georgia’s Interior Ministry says that, over the past 24 hours, 7,880 citizens of various countries entered Georgia through the Lars customs checkpoint on the Russian-Georgian border, while 8,406 people left the country through the same checkpoint during the same period.

1/ The director of Georgian film Tear Gas, which won a prize at the Locarno Film Festival, says the Georgian Film Center asked the festival to remove the film from its screening schedule. He says he was also warned he would be fined if it was publicly screened.

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⭕ Uta Beria’s feature film “Tear Gas” has won the Independent Jury Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival. 🎬 The director dedicated the award to prisoner of conscience Mate Devidze. #GeorgiaProtests

⚠️ 1/ Former PM of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili writes from prison that “from now on, the responsibility for his and his family’s safety lies with Bidzina Ivanishvili and the government".

⭕ Uta Beria’s feature film “Tear Gas” has won the Independent Jury Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival. 🎬 The director dedicated the award to prisoner of conscience Mate Devidze. #GeorgiaProtests

⭕ “While the State Serves Ivanishvili, Georgians Are Leaving the Country” #GeorgiaProtests Day 626

Batumi is full of Russian tourists, so a few Georgians marched along the beach, holding Ukrainian, Georgian, and EU flags and banners saying that Russia is an occupier. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze called the protest Russophobic. 📷 Sopo Gogokhia