Deputy ED @Transparency_GE | Democracy & Anti-Corruption Protagonist, Pro-Business Advocate | Thoughts mine unless quoted | ‘Russian warship go f*** yourself!’
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#Putin will inevitably attack further, if he is not stopped immediately. With all the atrocities & indiscriminate shellings he committed already, he has cornered himself into a becoming a rogue, and has no other choice other than to escalate further. #StopPutin #СлаваУкраїнi
A very interesting and hopefully a useful meeting of the Secretary-General of the @coe Council of Europe with Georgian Civil Society representatives
@GeorgeBurj @Nino__Dolidze
Afgan Sadigov’s arrest is the result of a coordinated operation by 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani and 🇬🇪 Georgian authorities. Without @GeorgianDream41 decision to hand him over, he would not be in prison today. Responsibility is shared
Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Sadigov has been placed in pre-trial detention again after a previously closed criminal case was reopened.
Press freedom organizations have repeatedly expressed concern over the use of criminal charges against independent journalists and government critics in Azerbaijan.
Read more:
humanrightsaz.com/en/azerbai…
#AfghanSadigov #PressFreedom #FreeMedia #Journalism #HumanRights #Azerbaijan #FreedomOfExpression #HumanRightsAZ
65 days after @GeorgianDream41 handed journalist #AfganSadigov to Azerbaijan through a late-night weekend court ruling, he was arrested on the very same charges Azerbaijan had claimed were dropped. The operation was coordinated. Georgian Dream bears responsibility for his fate.
“AzelTV” YouTube kanalının rəhbəri, jurnalist Əfqan Sadıqov barəsində Binəqədi Rayon Məhkəməsinin qərarı ilə iyulun 30-dək həbs qətimkan tədbiri seçilib.
Bu barədə onun vəkili Nemət Kərimli məlumat verib.
Vəkilin sözlərinə görə, Baş Prokurorluq Əfqan Sadıqov haqqında 2024-cü ildə başlanmış cinayət işinə xitam versə də, iş üzrə zərərçəkənlər həmin qərardan məhkəməyə şikayət ediblər.
“Binəqədi Rayon Məhkəməsi zərərçəkənlərin şikayətinə baxaraq Baş Prokurorluğun cinayət işinə xitam verilməsi barədə qərarını ləğv edib. Bununla da Əfqan Sadıqovla bağlı cinayət işi yenidən istintaqa qaytarılıb. Həmin gün keçirilən digər məhkəmə iclasında isə onun barəsində iyulun 30-dək həbs qətimkan tədbiri seçilib”, - Nemət Kərimli bildirib.
Xəbərin davamını oxuyun: shorturl.at/hko6c
Giorgi Oniani retweeted
After Hudson published a report on Iran's growing influence in Georgia, Georgian Dream PM Irakli Kobakhidze threatened legal action against the report's co-author, @kandelakigiorgi.
"Cracking down on authors doing research that are trying to highlight a problem is not the solution," @LukeDCoffey emphasized at a recent event.
"I know the US–Georgia relationship will get back on track. But in the meantime, the Georgian Dream needs to be on notice that of all US presidential administrations, this one is not going to tolerate the IRGC recruiting and running wild in their country."
Geo Ruling party @GeorgianDream41, under oligarch #Ivanishvili is extraditing #ƏfqanSadıqov to 🇦🇿 #IlhamAliyev’s authoritarian regime, despite clear risks of prosecution - exposing its own authoritarian character and breaching international obligations, including non-refoulement.
🚨 Urgent
Journalist #AfganSadiqov who has been living in #Georgia due to political persecution from #Azerbaijan, is being deported to Azerbaijan.
@amnesty @hrw @RFERL @freedomnoworg @freedomhouse @RepJoeWilson @jnbarrot @washingtonpost @AP @nytimes @pressfreedom @ABC @eu_eeas
👇This is one of the reasons the Georgian Dream government attacks and pressurises organisations like us, @Transparency_GE because we do our best for the justice to be served wherever and whatever it takes us.
🚨 TI Georgia has filed 2 new cases to the Strasbourg Court: journalist Vika Bukia and lawyer Mikheil Zaqareishvili.
Both cases involve violations of expression, assembly, and fair trial rights.
In total, 8 applications have been submitted over the past year, and TI Georgia continues to defend citizens before international mechanisms.
🔗 shorturl.at/GQh4X
Giorgi Oniani retweeted
Georgian Dream is using the courts as a weapon to silence anyone who challenges their hold on power. 🧵(1/3)
Elene Khoshtaria, leader of opposition Droa party, was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison after court found her guilty in "property damage" case launched over her writing a protest message on Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze's campaign banner in September. More: civil.ge/archives/726979
International fraud network targeting EU, British and Canadian retirees operating from Georgia under the protection of 🇬🇪 ruling party @GeorgianDream41 . Estimated stolen funds: $350M–$1B+
🔎 Scam call centers operating from Georgia have stolen an estimated $350M–$1B from citizens in the EU, UK, and Canada.
Investigations indicate the industry operated for years with political protection under the Georgian Dream government.
🔗 Our research explains the system behind the fraud and signs of selective justice:
shorturl.at/AjIhL
Giorgi Oniani retweeted
.@SecRubio: "Let me explain to you guys this in simple English, ok? Iran is run by lunatics — religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism that the world will not be able to touch them for fear of those things.
And this is the weakest they've ever been. Now is the time to go after them. The President made the decision to go after them, take away their missiles, take away their navy, take away their drones, take away their ability to make those things, so that they can never have a nuclear weapon...
That's why the President made this decision. It was the right decision — and the world will be a safer place when these radical clerics no longer have access to these weapons. You see how they're using them now. Imagine how they would use them a year from now if they had more of these."
🛑 In the circumstances when the freedom-loving democratic world stands with the people of #Iran against criminal regime of Ayatollahs, Georgian capital’s Mayor approves the request of the Iranian Embassy to lit up the iconic TV tower in the colors of Islamic Revolution’s flag
A set of events of October 4, 2025, which the Georgian authoritarian and anti-Western ruling party has tried to portray as an attempted coup d'etat - seems to be a trivial case of political prosecution, and a staged process & provocation of a crime 👇
⚖️ The evidence and analysis supports the conclusion that those charged over the 4 October events and individuals detained or convicted during the prolonged civic protests are victims of political persecution and qualify as political prisoners.
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How can possibly anyone in his full senses happen to be whitewashing the worst, most undemocratic and most cruel regimes on this planet?!
Free Iran!
Help heroic Iranian people!
To all of our friends around the world,
Under the yoke of the Islamic Republic, Iran is identified in your minds with terrorism, extremism, and poverty. The real Iran is a different Iran. A beautiful, peace-loving, and flourishing Iran.
It is the Iran that existed before the Islamic Republic, and it is the Iran that will rise again from its ashes the day the Islamic Republic falls.
So let me be clear about how a free Iran will act toward its neighbors and the world, after the fall of this regime.
In security and foreign policy, Iran’s nuclear military program will end. Support for terrorist groups will cease immediately. A free Iran will work with regional and global partners to confront terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, and extremist Islamism.
Iran will act as a friend and a stabilizing force in the region. And it will be a responsible partner in global security.
In diplomacy, relations with the United States will be normalized and our friendship with America and her people will be restored. The State of Israel will be recognized immediately. We will pursue the expansion of the Abraham Accords into the Cyrus accords bringing together a free Iran, Israel, and the Arab world.
A new chapter will begin, grounded in mutual recognition, sovereignty, and national interest.
In energy, Iran holds some of the largest oil and gas reserves in the world. A free Iran will become a reliable energy supplier to the free world. Policy-making will be transparent. Iran’s actions will be responsible. Prices will be predictable.
In transparency and governance, Iran will adopt and enforce international standards. Money laundering will be confronted. Organized corruption will be dismantled. Public institutions will answer to the people.
In the economy, Iran is one of the world’s last great untapped markets. Our population is educated, modern, with a diaspora that connects it to the four corners of the world. A democratic Iran will open its economy to trade, investment, and innovation. And Iran will seek to invest in the world.
Opportunity will replace isolation.
This is not an abstract vision. It is a practical one. Grounded in national interest, stability, and cooperation.
To achieve this, now is the time to stand with the Iranian people. The fall of the Islamic Republic and the establishment of a secular, democratic government in Iran will not only restore dignity to my people, it will benefit the region and the world.
A free Iran will be a force for peace. For prosperity. And for partnership.
While the world is preoccupied with limiting Russia’s oil based war economy income - pro-Russian Georgians, with the support of pro-Russian Georgian Dream, launch a new factory which is supposed to refine Russian oil.
It is critical that ‘refining’ does not become ‘relabling’
🚨 Our new blog raises concerns over the Black Sea oil refinery project in Georgia. Russian-linked ownership increases the risk that sanctioned oil may be rebranded and exported as “Georgian.” Transparency is essential.
🔗 shorturl.at/hrGSz
Giorgi Oniani retweeted
There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in the 28 point plan: This is the end of the end.
We have been told repeatedly and unambiguously that Ukraine’s security, and therefore Europe’s security, will be Europe’s responsibility. And now it is. Entirely.
If you are a European leader asking your team to book you on the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don’t.
Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of the cameras at the Oval office.
Europe is our continent, our future is decided here, not there. We aren’t poor, we have options, we can finally decide to assist Ukraine to the full extent of our very extensive capabilities, restore European dignity and defend Europe.
Or we can continue to wait for the miracle we now know is not coming.
Giorgi Oniani retweeted
🇬🇪 Today, at the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Working Group on Candidate Countries -
a platform where Members of the European Parliament and our Eastern partners meet to discuss democracy, reforms, and EU integration —
we heard a deeply moving testimony from a representative of Georgian civil society.
For citizens of democratic countries, it is almost unimaginable
that people can be repressed, their voices silenced,
their bank accounts frozen, and activists jailed —
simply for promoting European values.
Before the regime of oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia was a leader —
first in reforms, first in progress, first in hope —
moving alongside Moldova and Ukraine toward the EU.
Now we see fear, intimidation, and pressure on civil society and free media.
As the European Union, we have no right to stay silent — we must act.
Georgia belongs in the European family —
because its brave people live and fight for Europe’s values every single day.
#GateofEurope #StopRuskiMir #UnitedEurope #FreeGeorgia #StandWithGeorgia 🇬🇪
A classy diplomatic response to a wanna-be dictator in the making who in a Russian 🇷🇺 propaganda style claimed that it was him who canceled a meeting with her because she attended a demonstration in Tbilisi.
#GeorgiaIsEurope
Prime Minister Kobakhidze,
The Georgian future is only for the Georgian people to decide. The same applies to every OSCE participating state. For people to be able to exercise this right, they need freedom of speech and free and fair elections with political alternatives to choose from.
Helsinki Final Act (1975):
✔️[Participating states] commit to promote and encourage the effective exercise of civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and other rights and freedoms for all individuals.
✔️They affirm that these rights and freedoms derive from the inherent dignity of the human person and are essential to the development of free and democratic societies.
In this spirit, as Chair of the OSCE and 50 years since the signing of this document, I invite you, @PM_Kobakhidze, to come to Finland, meet the free press and observe any demonstration of your liking.
PS. Sorry I had to cancel our meeting in Tbilisi because of clashing schedules.
A small country 🇬🇪 with courageous people trying to resist to a Russian oligarch #Ivanishvili and his kangaroo party @GeorgianDream41 who have dismantled democracy and captured all state institutions and branches of power
Read the story of Georgian oligarch Ivanishvili and see how he acts when all state institutions are captured and serve only him instead of the people. nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opini…