The Council of Europe told Georgia on Tuesday to improve its justice system, saying it was worried about allegations that authorities have been abusing the law to conduct a politically motivated crackdown on the opposition.
The criticism from the pan-European human rights body comes at a sensitive time for Georgia, which has sought to move closer to NATO and the European Union in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014.
Georgia fought and lost a brief war with Russia in 2008 that ended with Moscow tightening its control over two breakaway Georgian regions, and it is keen to court …read more
Source: Voice of America
