“The Government took steps to investigate some officials for human rights abuses, but impunity remained a problem,” reads the 2021 Report on Human Rights Practices in Georgia, issued by the US Department of State.
“Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: serious problems with the independence of the judiciary along with arbitrary or selective detentions, investigations, and prosecutions widely considered to be politically motivated; unlawful interference with privacy; violence and threats of violence against journalists; limited respect for freedom of peaceful assembly and association; and crimes involving violence or threats targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons and activists.
“The Government took steps to investigate some officials for human rights abuses, but impunity remained a problem. The Government’s failure to credibly investigate and prosecute the organizers of violence on July 5-6 resulted in impunity for those abuses,” reads the report.
