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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 08/09/2026

I submitted written comments in the #ECtHR case of Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association and Others v. Georgia (no. 2). At issue is the 2025 Foreign Agents Registration Act restricting civil society’s #FreedomOfExpression and #FreedomOfAssociation. ⬇️Read my submission to #ECHR ⬇️

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Commissioner intervenes in ECtHR case on Georgia’s ‘Foreign Agents Registration Act’ - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 8 September 2026

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This whole saga is fascinating for anyone who wants to understand this part of the world and how power actually works here. Unfortunately, I’ve been pitching this story to editors for months without a single response. 5/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fearing Levan Jangveladze’s brother Merab, a powerful criminal authority who has been linked to the killings of some of the post-Soviet underworld’s most influential figures, including Ded Khasan and Yaponchik, Ivanishvili had to make a choice. 4/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The relationship between Partskhaladze and Ivanishvili only deteriorated after March 2025, when a hitman allegedly hired by Partskhaladze killed businessman Levan Jangveladze, one of the most influential figures in the post-Soviet criminal underworld, in central Tbilisi. 3/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Partskhaladze, sanctioned by both the U.S. and UK, has long wielded influence over Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office and reportedly controlled part of the country’s powerful judicial clan even after he was forced to resign and moved to Russia. 2/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Beyond shocking: Georgia’s former Prosecutor General and one of the most influential figures in Bidzina Ivanishvili’s inner circle, Otar Partskhaladze, has formed a military unit and gone to the front to fight alongside Russian forces against Ukraine. 1/

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Georgian poets who defied Stalin – and the ones being silenced today By @annagvarish.bsky.social @voxeurop.bsky.social 🔗 voxeurop.eu/en/georgia-p...

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We live in an insane reality: well-known TV host Vakho Sanaia has been sentenced to 14 days in prison over a Facebook post in which he jokingly urged people to stop insulting Georgian Dream leaders after the ruling party criminalized insulting posts.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The public response gave a very clear answer: yes, people do want their money spent on saving children. 7/END

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A remarkably cynical argument coming from a government whose high-ranking officials are themselves increasingly facing corruption charges. 6/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is especially striking in the context of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s statement that the government cannot fund the medication because it is “people’s money” and therefore must be spent “responsibly.” 5/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The campaign started just yesterday and has already raised around 1,000,000 GEL (~ $37 600) in less than 24 hours. 4/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

While the government largely ignored them, and at times even mocked them, students from Ilia State University, one of the main targets of the Georgian Dream regime, launched a campaign called “One GEL for Kids.” 3/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

For about a month now, parents of children with DMD have been protesting in Georgia, demanding life-saving medication for their kids. 2/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

1,000,000 GEL for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy raised in less than two days! For many Georgians, this became another form of resistance, perhaps one of the few “safe” ones left. Why? 👇 1/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In other words: the Georgian Dream regime is now lecturing the EU on democracy and human rights while Georgia is arresting protesters, criminalizing dissent, attacking journalists, banning peaceful assembly, and dismantling democratic institutions at home. 2/2

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Kobakhidze’s open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, António Costa and Roberta Metsola is basically this: Georgia is the real Europe, the EU bureaucracy abandoned European values, Copenhagen police violence proves Europe is collapsing, and the EU must explain where it is taking the continent. 1/2

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

followed by what authorities describe as “appropriate legal response.” 2/2

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Georgian Dream is creating its own Roskomnadzor. A special unit is being established within the Interior Ministry whose main function will be the “systematic monitoring of hate speech, offensive campaigns, and aggressive communication in public space,” 1/2

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Strength in Europe, Strength in Unity - today’s #GeorgiaProtests march in Tbilisi. May 9, Europe Day. Video by MoSe

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Russian Al chatbot, Alice (Yandex AI), generating a truthful response about the Bucha massacre then automatically overwriting it with a refusal "There are topics I could be wrong about. I better stay quiet." Video experiment belongs to Ihor Samokhodsky.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Organizers Paata Burchuladze, Murtaz Zodelava, Irakli Nadiradze, Paata Manjgaladze, and Lasha Beridze received 7-year prison sentences. World-renowned operatic bass Paata Burchuladze is 71 years old. 2/2

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Right after announcing the arrests of several police officers, a Georgian Dream-controlled court sentenced organizers and participants of the October 4 #GeorgiaProtests to 5–7 years in prison. 1/2

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

6/ Today, after roughly a year and a half and around 400 documented cases of violence, the Prosecutor’s Office was finally forced to select three cases and demonstratively punish the perpetrators.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

5/ The same day, Jariashvili was summoned by investigative authorities. According to her, she provided the identity of the officer who attacked her colleague, despite being convinced that prosecutors already possessed that information.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

4/ Yesterday, journalist Guram Rogava and his colleague Eliso Jariashvili published an investigation in which they managed to identify the special forces officer who attacked Rogava, although they did not publicly reveal his identity.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

3/ “Out of the five defendants, two were already in custody on other criminal and administrative charges, while three were detained today,” the Chief Prosecutor said.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

2/ According to the Prosecutor’s Office, those detained include three former and one current special forces officer, as well as one current employee of the Interior Ministry’s Security Police Department.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

1/ A year and a half after the violent crackdown, GD has announced the arrest of 5 police officers allegedly involved in attacks on protester Zviad Maisashvili (1st video), journalist Guram Rogava (2nd), and politician Levan Khabeishvili (3rd). The move comes only after a journalistic investigation🧵

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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Student arrested at Ilia University today, apparently for peaceful protest. Hello to @tum.de in Munich that continues to collaborate with & legitimize GD's key enterprises & would prefer its critics to shut up. #Georgia www.tum-scandal.com

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Today in Georgia, police arrived at Ilia State University to detain student Ani Pridonashvili. She is being arrested over participating in #GeorgiaProtests on December 17, when demonstrators were standing on the SIDEWALK in front of Parliament.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As Ivanishvili withdrew from the public spotlight, Udzilauri also disappeared from view. It is now emerging, however, that he had been holding a senior position in the Ministry of Finance. All of this is really, really strange. 3/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Giorgi Udzilauri previously served as head of the PR team for Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Kartu Group and was effectively his spokesperson for years. 2/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Breaking: One of Bidzina Ivanishvili’s close associates, Giorgi Udzilauri, has been arrested on charges of spying for “one of the European countries” and allegedly selling information about special forces in exchange for money. 1/

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Don’t forget Georgia, under assault from Putin’s puppets. Georgia is European. @annagvarish.bsky.social

Anna Gvarishvili • @AnnaGvaris... • 2m
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I rarely tweet these days. When things feel this hopeless, I don't know what to say. I don't want my posts to sound like "they beat us again, oh well," and I hate complaining, so most days I stay quiet.
But l'll say this: you have no idea how hard it is to be a journalist, activist, politician, or just a regular citizen in today's Georgia. If you're not with GD, you're under them in every sense of the word.
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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This reshuffle follows long-rumored infighting within Bidzina Ivanishvili’s inner circle. For now, it appears that Irakli Kobakhidze has come out on top - again. 3/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Geka Geladze, Minister of Internal Affairs, will take over the position. He will be replaced at the Interior Ministry by Sulkhan Tamazashvili, head of the Adjara Autonomous Republic. 2/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Breaking: shift within Bidzina Ivanishvili’s government. Mamuka Mdinaradze has been removed as head of the State Security Service and appointed State Minister in a newly created role, effectively a demotion. 1/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It’s news to us as well. We just learned.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Yes! 🇭🇺 Hungarians remember 1956. Russians, go home!

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

500 days of non-stop, uninterrupted #GeorgiaProtests. Until the end, until victory! 🇬🇪🇪🇺

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

5/ Sadigov has a wife and two daughters.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

4/ On April 1, Azerbaijan suddenly withdrew its extradition request. On April 4, around midnight, Georgian police detained Sadigov at his home on administrative charges. By early morning, he had been forcibly expelled from the country.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

3/ On Feb 28, 2025, the ECHR prohibited his extradition to Azerbaijan. He was released in April 2025 and became an active participant in #GeorgiaProtests. At one rally, he burned a photo of Bidzina Ivanishvili. He was repeatedly detained on administrative charges.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

2/ Sadigov was detained in Tbilisi in August 2024. A Georgian court placed him in extradition detention. The independent journalist warned that he could be killed if returned to Azerbaijan. In protest, he went on a hunger strike that lasted for months.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

BREAKING: Georgia has forcibly expelled Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Sadigov to Azerbaijan, despite a binding ruling by the European Court of Human Rights prohibiting his transfer. He was wanted by Ilham Aliyev and now faces a real risk of torture. 🧵1/5

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

10/ Shervashidze and Toshkhua were arrested on August 16, following weeks of Gotsiridze posting videos online mocking and threatened the protesters.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

9/ Despite footage showing protesters actually returning Gotsiridze’s dropped keys to him as he left, the state insists 20 people "swarmed" him for group violence.

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