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  2. In recent years, Georgia has witnessed at least seven high-profile Christian-Muslim disputes and anti-Muslim incidents throughout the country. In February 2016, three Muslims were injured as a result of a brawl in the village of Adigeni in southern Georgia after the local Muslim community requested authorities to allocate a separate cemetery ...
  3. Georgia's Muslim community received a double blow on 11 May, when Batumi City Hall rejected a petition to construct a second mosque in the city and local authorities in the village of Mokhe rejected a request to transfer ruins in the village, allegedly of a mosque, to the local Muslim community. For decades, Muslims in Batumi, the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara on Georgia's ...
  4. Dec 10, 2024We continue our live coverage of the fallout and widespread protests that have come in the wake of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's announcement that Georgia would be halting its EU accession process. * Help us hold power to account; Become an OC Media Member. * Donate to our collective fundraiser to help Georgian media survive an authoritarian crackdown.
  5. The Georgian Parliament's Human Rights Committee is to create a working group to develop a bill against 'insulting religious feelings'. The bill was co-authored and supported by two conservative Georgian groups. Emzar Kvitsiani, an MP from the Alliance of Patriots, a conservative party with six seats in parliament, and Zviad Tomaradze, head of Georgia's Demographic Society XXI, a non ...
  6. Aug 20, 2024Following in well-established authoritarian footsteps, Georgia's introduction of anti-queer laws are set to have dire consequences for the country's democracy. In June 2024, Georgia's ruling party introduced a package of anti-queer laws, passing the bill in its first of three parliamentary readings. The package prohibits gay marriage, gender transition, and queer adoption, as well as ...
  7. Jul 3, 2023The Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church has called for the country to adopt a law prohibiting queer 'propaganda'. In a statement on Saturday, the Church noted that 'today it may be particularly timely to call on the public to discuss the regulation of the [queer 'propaganda'] problem through legislation'.. Their statement came a day before Georgia's annual Pride Week ...
  8. Jun 27, 2023In recent months, senior figures in the ruling Georgian Dream party have increased and intensified their homophobic rhetoric, accusing a fast food restaurant of distributing 'LGBT propaganda', and suggesting that students need to enter heterosexual relationships and 'reproduce'. Georgia's Prime Minister, ruling party chair, and parliamentary faction chair have all made pointed ...
  9. Ethnic Azerbaijani activists in southern Georgia are waging a legal fight to change the overwhelmingly monolingual policies of local authorities. Two lawsuits currently going through the courts could have implications for the language rights of the ethnic minorities across Georgia. On 2 April, judge Nino Giorgadze of the Bolnisi District Court renewed hearings into a case brought by Nashir ...
  10. On 5 July, a homophobic riot broke out on the streets of Tbilisi, leading to injuries and possibly a death. While Georgia's population is generally conservative, what do people think of the events of 5 July, and how have these views shifted since a similar riot on 17 May 2013? On the morning of 5 July 2021, hundreds of Georgians responded to the calls of the Patriarchate of Georgia and far ...
  11. The head of the Georgian Parliament's Defence Committee is set to introduce a bill to scrap exemptions from mandatory military service for religious clerics, with the exception of Georgian Orthodox priests. The bill has sparked protests from human rights organisations, who said the initiative was discriminatory. A number of minority religious groups also opposed to the bill and said they ...

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