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Former Georgian Defense Minister Irakly Okruashvili is now under arrest in Tbilisi after spending the last five years abroad.
A city court in Tbilisi has ordered that 10 Interior Ministry officials detained on November 15 must remain in police custody pending trial on abuse-of-office charges.
Twelve Georgian Interior Ministry officials have been charged with abuse of office.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the "rule of law" should be applied in legal proceedings against Georgian political figures.
A court in Tbilisi has released two military officials on bail but left a former interior minister in pretrial detention.
Two Georgian defense officials have been detained in Tbilisi, a day after the former interior minister was arrested in connection with a prison-abuse scandal.
Bacho Akhalaia has been arrested on abuse of office charges.
Georgia's government is working on a new law giving the cabinet the power to appoint regional governors.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has signed a decree changing the security arrangements at Tbilisi's international airport.
The Georgian Interior Ministry says 38 inmates are scheduled for release from penitentiaries on October 30.
Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili has pardoned the imprisoned son of the country's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
The woman expected to become Georgia's next foreign minister says the new government's position on Abkhazia and South Ossetia would "remain unchanged."
The only Russian-language TV channel in Georgia says it has been forced to suspend broadcasts due to a quarrel with its funder, the country's public broadcasting system.
Billionaire-turned-politician Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is expected to become Georgia's new head of government, says his country "will for sure take part" in the 22nd Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi in 2014.
Hundreds of supporters of the Georgian Dream political coalition have held a protest in Georgia's western city of Zugdidi, demanding a new election for their parliamentary district.
Protests are continuing for a third straight day in Georgia, with thousands of demonstrators demanding the prosecution of top officials implicated in a prison abuse scandal.
Georgia's interior minister has resigned amid a scandal over a video purportedly showing inmates being abused by prison guards.
Georgian Minister of Corrections, Probation, and Legal Assistance Khatuna Kalmakhelidze has resigned, one day after television channels controlled by political interests opposed to President Mikheil Saakashvili aired videos purportedly showing the abuse of prisoners at a jail in Tbilisi.
A Georgian court has found a senior member of the opposition Georgian Dream political coalition guilty of fraud and sentenced him to six years in absentia.
Georgian media have reported that former Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Gomiashvili was found dead in his apartment in Tbilisi.
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