Georgia identifies suspect in leaked sex tape
Georgia’s Interior Ministry named a man serving a prison sentence for murder in Armenia as being behind the leak.
Daghestan bans rally in support of activist denied access to dying daughter
The protest’s organiser held a single-person picket as part of the Russia-wide ‘March of Maternal Anger’ after authorities prohibited a larger rally.
Georgia axes secondary school exams in controversial education reforms
Students will no longer sit standardised graduation tests for secondary school or the general intelligence component of the Unified National Exams.
Daghestani border communities demand transparency in Chechnya border discussions
A delegation from Daghestan travelled to the Chechen capital, Grozny, for the second meeting on the border.
Georgian activists protest for human rights committee head to resign
The Protest calling for her resignation, the second in under a year, came after Kiladze stormed out of a meeting on a proposed Children’s Rights Code.
Russian senator for Karachay–Cherkessia arrested over double murder
Rauf Arashukov was arrested inside the Federation Council as members of his family were also arrested on corruption charges.
Georgian Dream–backed sexual harassment bill put before parliament
A new bill initiated by the Parliament’s Gender Equality Council is seeking to make sexual harassment an administrative offence.
MPs threaten to quit Georgian Dream over supreme justice nominees
At least four MPs including former legal affairs committee chair Eka Beselia threatened to quit over accusations of ‘clan rule’ within the judiciary.
Abkhazian human rights commissioner condemns treatment of Gali Georgians
The commissioner said protests in Gali over the closure of Abkhazia’s eastern border ‘to prevent swine flu’ could have been avoided.
Court rules in favour of Georgian security service over teen’s death in Pankisi
The family of Temirlan Machalikashvili, represented by rights group EMC, had argued that the SSG violated the 19-year-old’s presumption of innocence.