UK sanctions Georgian officials over human rights abuses

UK ‘becomes first state to sanction Georgia’s general prosecutor’

Giorgi Gabitashvili and three other high-ranking officials have been made subject to asset freezes and travel bans.

The Prime Minister of Georgia said that there is a tragic state of affairs in the UK: EADaily

EADaily, April 11th, 2025. UK sanctions against Georgian Prosecutor General Giorgi Gabitashvili and other law enforcement officials speak about the tragic state of affairs in the kingdom, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said.

UK becomes first state to sanction Georgia’s general prosecutor

Giorgi Gabitashvili along with three other high-ranking officials have been made subject to asset freezes and travel bans. Britain has become the first country to sanction Georgia’s state prosecutor following a series of crackdowns on demonstrators and opposition figures since last year. General prosecutor Giorgi Gabitashvili along with three other high-ranking officials have been made subject to asset freezes and travel bans for their role in “…

UK sanctions Georgian officials over human rights abuses

The UK on Thursday sanctioned four Georgian officials, including the country’s first deputy minister of internal affairs Shalva Bedoidze, accusing them of serious human rights violations. Protests in Georgia have been ongoing since November, when the ruling Georgian Dream party said it was suspending European Union accession talks until 2028. According to the British government, Bedoidze has engaged in actions that constitute a grave infringemen…

RSF says Georgia refused entry to two French journalists in recent months; both had covered the protests and crackdown that followed the October election

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Russia is testing new hybrid strategies in the country, it was very significantly involved in the Georgian elections through propaganda, technologies and techniques that helped the ruling party to rig the elections, Georgia's fifth head of state Salome Zurabishvili said in an interview with Czech Foreign Correspondent David Mirejovsky.