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Gvantsa Samkharadze

@gvantsasamkh.bsky.social
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LL.M, International Law | Advocate for Human Rights in Georgia | F1 enthusiast | Sharing insights on Law, Politics and Global Issues 🇬🇪🇪🇺

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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A civil activist, Tamila Mearakishvili has been arrested in Tskhinvali by the occupying de facto regime. She is accused of “espionage” and faces up to 20 years in prison. Her relatives fear she is being held in inhumane conditions and warn that her life may be in danger. #Georgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Days after his release, opposition leader Zurab Japaridze is being targeted again. Prosecutors now seek bail over the absurd charge of “assisting hostile foreign activities.” The call came the same day Coalition For Change urged 9 intl bodies to investigate alleged chemical attacks on protesters.
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It’s been 7 days since the @BBC ‘s investigative film and Ivanishvilis’ Georgian Dream party still has not told us what chemicals they sprayed on us during the 2024 #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🧵 One day after the BBC investigation was released, I am still shaken as a Georgian, as a civilian, and as a jurist by the findings regarding the alleged use of camite during the recent #GeorgiaProtests in Tbilisi. youtu.be/z4-koO916Gk?...
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Did Georgian police use a chemical weapon against protesters? - BBC World Service Documentaries
YouTube video by BBC World Service
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
BBC reports evidence Ivanishvili’s regime used WWI-era “camite” (Bromobenzyl cyanide) in water-cannons against protesters, causing long-lasting harm. Since April 9, 1989, no chemical weapons had been used on Georgian civilians. If true, a grave crime by Ivanishvili & GD. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests - BBC News
Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Ivanishvili’s regime arrested 26 citizens within a few hours. #TerrorinGeorgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🇬🇪 In last two days Georgian Dream party arrested 14 protesters and put one of them in “compulsory psychiatric care”. However despite their repression Rustaveli avenue remains blocked.
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Today the regime arrested journalist Keta Tsitskishvili for allegedly blocking the road during protest. Take a look at her expression - Do the regime really think that they can frighten Keta or other brave Georgian people? #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
During the day, Ivanishvili’s regime arrested 11 citizens. #TerrorinGeorgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
BREAKING: Ivanishvili’s Chief Prosecutor confirms that homes of former PM Irakli Garibashvili, former State Security Service head Grigol Liluashvili, former Prosecutor General Otar Partskhaladze, and 5 others were searched this morning. #Georgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
1/6 ⚠️ New Repressive Laws Passed in Georgia - Key Risks Yesterday, Georgian Dream party rushed through and signed into law a series of highly restrictive bills that severely limit the right to protest and political participation. Here are the 🧵 of the most alarming parts:
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
1/2 Dear friends, the regime has arrested Gela Khasaia - a member of @CoalitionGEO and a brave man who has protested against GD government for years. Unlike previous detentions, this time he faces criminal charges in a clearly politically motivated case. #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
1/3 Today was a very tough day in Georgia👇🏻 * Anti-Putin activist Anton Chechin was sentenced to 8.5 years by Ivanishvili’s court. * Judge Jvebe Natchkebia sent eight prisoners of conscience to prison for 2–2.5 years each - all of them honorable and courageous men. #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Happy Independence Day, #Ukraine ! Georgia is with you 🇬🇪
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
“In the case file there are clothes that I wore, but they did not include the shirt, which was bloodstained. I will not speak further about the torture I endured, how they blackmailed me, threatened me, and tortured me… I finished, Your Honor,” said Archil Museliants in his final court statement.
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🚨 Trump says he has spoken with Putin after meeting Zelenskyy & European leaders. Plans are underway for a direct Zelenskyy-Putin meeting, followed by a trilateral with #Trump himself. A “very good, early step” toward ending the 4-year war, he claims. Glory to #Ukraine 🇺🇦!
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
‼️ A hair analysis has confirmed that no traces of drug use were found in the body of prisoner of conscience Nika Katsia, who is accused by Ivanishvili’s prosecution of possession of narcotic substances. Katsia maintains that the regime planted the drugs on him. #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
1/2 We are at the court hearing of prisoners of conscience - Temur Zasokhashvili and Davit Lomidze. Both asked the judge to deliver an objective ruling. Both are innocent. But Ivanishvili’s Judge Nino Galustashvili sentenced them to 4 years and 6 months in prison. #TerrorinGeorgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
1/3 August 7, 2008 – the day #russia launched a full-scale military invasion of #Georgia. Not August 8. Not a reaction. A premeditated act of war - planned, executed, and then buried beneath layers of lies.
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Protest 24 @protest24.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
#GeorgiaProtests
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Protest 24 @protest24.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Remember Ivanishvili’s Judge Nino Sakhelashvili who sentenced prisoner of conscience, @MziaAmaglobeli to 2 years in prison! #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“An honest person cannot take responsibility for something they did not do”, - Maia Mtsariashvili, lawyer of Mzia Amaglobeli I bow my head before Mzia - a woman who is writing a chapter in the history of modern Georgia. #FreeMzia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🚨The Prosecutor’s Office admitted that prisoner of conscience, Saba Skhvitaridze did not know Mirian Kavtaradze was a police officer. The charge of attacking a police officer has been dropped entirely. According to Radio Liberty’s live blog, the prosecutor has reclassified the charge against Saba.
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
1/2 The PM of Georgian Dream, Irakli Kobakhidze, was asked what someone should do if they urgently need medical care in Europe and visa-free travel is suspended. His response? #TerrorinGeorgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Another witness testified in the trial of the 11 prisoners of conscience - Lasha Gelashvili, an employee of Special Task Department, who holds the status of a victim. Gelashvili claims he was hit by a stone on 30 November inside the perimeter of Parliament, but says he CANNOT IDENTIFY WHO THROW IT
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What's happening in Georgia? @now-in-georgia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
What's happening in Georgia? How did it come to this? What can the int'l community do to reverse the slide into #authoritarianism? The first episode of our new #podcast is live: open.spotify.com/show/0VqoA7c... Please listen, follow and share. #StandWithGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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What's happening in Georgia?
Podcast · One Man Army · What's happening in Georgia? In October 2024, the Georgian Dream party extended its 12 years in power following rigged elections. A month later, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhid...
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
‼️ Giorgi Bachiashvili, a former aide to Bidzina Ivanishvili and now a political prisoner is reportedly being tortured in prison. According to doctors, he has sustained multiple injuries to his head and body. #TerrorinGeorgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
23-year-old Mamuka Gatserelia, a Georgian, who fought at Azovstal in 2022, was captured by russian forces, and sentenced to life in prison by a russian court in 2024. What worries me most is that his family hasn’t heard from him in two months and the mother is asking for help. #Georgia #Ukraine️
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Georgian Dream’s latest statement accuses the EU and UK of suffering from a “value crisis” and being ruled by the “Deep State.” 🤡 Why? Because 17 EU foreign ministers and the EU’s top diplomat expressed concern over Georgia’s democratic backsliding. #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“You’re looking at me so calmly, I really wonder - did you sleep peacefully last night after the verdict you handed down to Saba Jikia?” - prisoner of conscience Nika Katsia to Ivanishvili’s Judge Tamar Mchedlishvili. Mchedlishvili is sanctioned by Estonia #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
‼️ Saliva was transferred onto the drug evidence - exposing a planted case against a prisoner of conscience, Dr.Giorgi Akhobadze At today’s court hearing, an independent expert testified that saliva belonging to Dr.Akhobadze had been artificially placed on the narcotics he is accused of possessing
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“I didn’t see who threw a stone at me from among the defendants; I can’t say who did or didn’t throw…” - Police officer Giorgi Janikashvili, testifying in court at the trial of the 11 prisoners of conscience. Credits: Radio Tavisupleba / Publika #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🇬🇪🇺🇦 “Long Live Georgia, Glory to Ukraine” - Sergey Kukharchuk, prisoner of conscience, at the trial. #GeorgiaProtests #Ukraine
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Tornike Rizhvadze, ex-head of Adjara, was shot in the chest and is in critical condition. Rumors suggest a suicide attempt, but even before this, talk was spreading that the regime had clashed with him over “black money,” accusing him of not paying into the party’s slush fund. #TerrorinGeorgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#GeorgiaProtests - There are 65 chairs, with photos of political prisoners, and on the last chair the question mark - you can be next! " - Mariam Sichinava writes and shares a photo @protest24.bsky.social
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In #Georgia, being an opposition leader looks like this:
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Standing in solidarity with @LeloForGeorgia leaders - Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze. Freedom to the regime’s prisoners. #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The regime’s attack on the #EU continues. Georgian Dream’s proxy group “People’s Power” brands EU Ambassador Herczynski a “deep state agent” - claiming any “normal country” would’ve expelled him, but they’re holding back in case Brussels sends “someone even worse”. No comment needed. #Georgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
#Breaking -Ivanishvili’s regime, using Russian laws, is demanding personal data of torture victims, women survivors, students, pensioners - anyone who sought help from human rights organizations. ‼️ This is not just repression. He’s building a Russian-style surveillance state in #Georgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#GeorgiaProtests - protesters with Guy Fawkes masks and torches marching from government chancellery to the parliament building, chanting “Revolution”
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“I can’t bear to hear the verdict” – Mate Devidze left the courtroom. The judge may announce the sentence later today. 💔 It’s truly painful to witness how the regime tries to ruin the lives of young people simply because they want to live in a better country and are brave enough to fight for it.
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Updated list: Politician Aleko Elisashvili Activist Ana Subeliani Journalist Eka Mishveladze
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#TerrorinGeorgia :)
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Irakli Shaishmelashvili, former senior official of the Special Task Department, stated that the representatives of 🇷🇺 ‘s FSB are physically present inside Georgia’s State Security Service building and are actively assisting Intelligence Services in conducting special operations against #Georgia.
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Please, refrain from using terms like “regime”, “russification”, or “illegitimate government”. These words are deeply hurtful to our country’s delicate authoritarian sensitivities :)) 1/2 Now for the context 👇🏻 #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“In #russia, our ‘office’ was right next to the FSB regional office,” said Zelenskyy. #Ukraine used 117 drones to strike Russian air bases, destroying 34% of its strategic cruise missile carrier aviation. Yeah, call him a clown again - he just took out a third of russia’s strategic reserves. :))
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
1/3 It's only 3PM in #Georgia and today the regime has already: - Sentenced Tornike Skhvitaridze - brother of prisoner of conscience Saba Skhvitaridze - to 5 days of administrative detention - Sentenced activist Lika Lortkipanidze to 12 days of administrative detention #TerrorinGeorgia
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Gvantsa Samkharadze @gvantsasamkh.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
‼️ Ivanishvili’s regime has just arrested Nika Melia, a leader of the opposition party “Ahali”. #TerrorinGeorgia #Breaking
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