The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association has presented to the public a report analyzing 22 cases concerning crimes allegedly committed by law enforcement officers which are being litigated by the GYLA. The GYLA is providing legal assistance to a number of victims and victims’ assignees who have stated that officers of law enforcement agencies, mostly of the police, committed criminal acts against them. The report evaluates the effectiveness of the State’s response in terms of investigation of these crimes and identification and punishment of the perpetrators, as well as protection of the victims’ rights

Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary is responding to Government’s decision to replace Nana Mchedilidze with Eva Gotsiridze on the list of judicial candidates submitted to the European Court of Human Rights.

On 29 July 2016, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of R.P.

The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association responds to the opinion of Mr. Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, regarding the application submitted by GYLA to the Electoral Administration of Georgia. The fact of violation of the legislation of Georgia and the attempt of marginalisation of the response of a monitoring organisation to this fact is unacceptable for GYLA. We consider the statement of the former president as an indirect limitation of the mandate of the monitoring organisation and as an act aimed to make it silent, which is unacceptable in a democratic state.

The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association continues the monitoring of the election campaigns for the Georgian Parliament electiond to be held on 8 October 2016. This time we would like to focus the attention of the public on the incidents occurred in two cities of Georgia, Batumi and Telavi, on 4 August, and call on the the parties involved in the electoral processes to be more responsible, to duly fulfil the obligations assigned to them under the legislation of Georgia and to contribute to the conduct of elections in a peaceful, stable and conductive environment.

The signatory non-governmental organizations express a strong discontent with the request of appointing a referendum on a human rights issue provided by the Constitution of Georgia that has already been sent by the Central Elections Committee to the President of Georgia.