Watchdog Says GD Uses Administrative Offenses Code to Suppress Protest, Calls for Reform

Watchdog Says GD Uses Administrative Offenses Code to Suppress Protest, Calls for Reform

The Social Justice Center has called for a comprehensive overhaul of Georgia’s Administrative Offenses Code, arguing that it contravenes international human rights standards. The watchdog says that in recent years, the Georgian Dream has increasingly used the mechanism of administrative detention to suppress protests and critical opinion. SJC asserts that meaningful reform will require systematic changes of the flawed “Soviet-era Administrative …