Georgia: Violent Attacks on Government Critics

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A demonstrator draped with the Georgian national and EU flags stands in front of police who are blocking the way to the parliament building, during a protest against the “foreign agent” law in Tbilisi, Georgia, May 14, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov (Berlin) – Georgian authorities have yet to demonstrate that they are conducting effective investigations into a spate of violent attacks on civic and political activists over recent months, Human Rights Watch said today. Impunity for these attacks risks encouraging further political violence and instability…

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