Georgia 'Moving Away' From Euro-Atlantic Integration Through Anti-Democratic Actions, State Dept Says
Georgia 'Moving Away' From Euro-Atlantic Integration Through Anti-Democratic Actions, State Dept Says
The United States on Wednesday once again criticized Georgia for 'moving away' from the Euro-Atlantic path through anti-democratic actions, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
The move came as the Georgian government early this week adopted a new law aiming to target vulnerable and marginalized people.
"... [A]s we have been saying for months that Georgia has been moving away from its stated desire and the evident desire of its people for Euro-Atlantic integration through anti-democratic actions, through crackdown on vulnerable and marginalized people, and this law is very much in keeping with that," State Department's spokesperson Matthew Miller told a daily briefing when responding to TURAN's questions.
The law, called "Family Values and Protection Of minors" is another copycat piece of legislation imported from Moscow, and has triggered backlash from the EU.
A day after the government passed legislation that will impose sweeping curbs on LGBTQ+ rights in the country, a well-known Georgian transgender model has been found murdered in suburban Tbilisi.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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