The Daily Beat: 21 May
Ombudsman flags police abuse claims after Tbilisi Court arrests
Part of NGOs: We call on international organizations to express a strict assessment of political persecution in Georgia, as well as to use all mechanisms to hold the Georgian Dream regime legally accountable
Tina Khidasheli: If anyone ever asks years later when a dictatorship was established in Georgia, you can confidently answer that it was established on May 22, 2025
Public Defender: Two persons detained in the vicinity of Tbilisi City Court on May 22 point to alleged use of excessive force and ill-treatment by the police - Public Defender's Office has already applied to the Special Investigation Service
Joe Wilson criticises Georgian Dream over Japaridze’s arrest
Joe Wilson: The anti-American Georgian Dream regime has wrongly arrested key opposition figure Zurab Japaridze and is creating a precedent to jail all opposition
Mikheil Kavelashvili on Marco Rubio’s statement:In principle, he gave a diplomatic answer and I am satisfied with this answer
Marko Mihkelson: Georgia’s dictatorship committed yet another crime against justice, democracy, and the rule of law by unlawfully arresting Zurab Japaridze - it is high time for democratic nations to move beyond words, impose sanctions on Ivanishvili’s regime
Opposition Reacts to Zurab Japaridze’s Jailing