In important respects, the new amendments represent progress for the independence of the High Judicial Council because they redress several shortcomings of the existing legislation, the Venice Commission report says.

The former Minister of Defense Bacho Akhalaia has been taken from so called Matrosov prison to Gldani No. 8 facility, Akhalaia’s lawyer Malkhaz Velijanashvili told InterPressNews.

Iuri Mardiani - father of the Georgian citizen David Mardiani who died in Hamburg in 2010 – accused the doctors and prosecutor in Germany of having a lack of objectivity in their investigation, as well as unlawful support of human organ transplantation.

‘They withdrew subutex from Eka Kherkheulidze’s house’

Former prosecutor Nana Tkhelidze was the only female given the status of political prisoner by the Parliament. She spent 2 years and 7 months in a female prison and were it not for the fact that the administration had changed in the country, she would have stayed behind the bars for 9 years. Since 1992, she held different posts at the Prosecutor’s Office. Her last job was that of supervising prosecutor of Patrol Police Investigation Department. She left her post on the basis of application in person the reason being confrontation with ex-Minister Zurab Adeishvili.

Rustavi 2 channel broadcasted the statement by former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaia during his court proceedings, after he was denied bail by the judge.

Shmagi and Gocha Aprasidzes - detained members of the family which lost two of its members in the controversial March 2004 special operation by the government - have left the Rustavi Number 16 Detention Facility and were met outside the building by family members and relatives, who had spent hours waiting in the yard.

The defense team of former interior and defense minister Bacho Akhalaia will request bail for their defendant, to substitute preliminary detention during the court process.

The letter published on Khatuna Kalmakhelidze’s Facebook, who is the former minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance, turned out to be shocking for most of the people.

Scandalous interview with former head of criminal police

Passions around 19-year-old Amiran (Buta) Robakidze’s case don’t fade. The pother was especially caused several days ago by the circulation of video recording that was handed to the investigation and journalists by Irakli Pirtskhalava.