"Hayk's Arrow" Armenian Strategic Center

Civic space

A sourced record of legislation, elections, institutions, civic space, media and international assessments.

Counting & sources

This is a curated register, not an exhaustive count. Each event has one primary category and is counted once within this monitor. Repeated reports and translations do not create extra events. Shared developments may appear in related monitors and must not be added together as unique events. Counts measure recorded developments, not policy success or democratic quality. Gaps do not establish inactivity.

Official statements establish what the issuing body recorded or announced. They do not by themselves prove that every commitment was fulfilled. Event dates drive charts; later publication dates are retained separately. The register is selective and will need further additions.

Filters
21 / 21

Download all matching records in the current order: 21

Download CSVDownload JSON
Downloads use the selected language and include dates, status and source links.

2026

Venice Commission reviews the March 2026 package

Civic spacePublished assessment

Freedom of association

The Commission found that expanded controls and criminal sanctions threatened civic freedoms and democratic pluralism.

The opinion is advisory; it does not itself invalidate Georgian legislation.

Published:

Link to record

Public Defender seeks reasons for assembly restrictions

Civic spacePublished assessment

Assembly & protest

The Defender urged the Interior Ministry to justify mandatory changes to assemblies’ location, timing, form or temporary structures.

He also requested disability accommodations and consideration of children’s interests.

Link to record

2025

Venice Commission assesses cumulative foreign-influence rules

Civic spacePublished assessment

Freedom of association

The Commission recommended repealing the registration act and revising or repealing restrictive grants and broadcasting provisions.

Adopted during the 9–10 October session, the opinion assessed cumulative effects and distinguished permissible political-party funding restrictions.

Published:

Link to record

Foreign grants become subject to prior approval

Civic spaceAdopted

Freedom of association

Parliament adopted a package requiring authorization for grants from specified foreign sources and restricting in-kind political donations.

Its account assigns recipient monitoring to the Anti-Corruption Bureau and provides liability for accepting unapproved grants.

Link to record

Venice Commission criticizes protest restrictions

Civic spacePublished assessment

Assembly & protest

An urgent opinion found serious defects in amendments to assembly rules and administrative penalties adopted in December and February.

It questioned clarity, proportionality and the legislative process. The opinion was issued on 3 March and later endorsed.

Published:

Link to record

2024

Public Defender condemns force against detainees

Civic spacePublished assessment

Accountability

Georgia’s Public Defender reported personal visits to detained and injured protesters and criticised disproportionate force and lack of accountability.

This is the national oversight institution’s assessment, rather than a criminal conviction of individual officers.

Link to record

Public Defender condemns violence in overnight dispersal

Civic spacePublished assessment

Assembly & protest

The Defender described unjustified force, pursuit of peaceful protesters and violence against journalists during the 28–29 November dispersal.

This is his contemporaneous assessment, separate from later detention monitoring.

Link to record

Public Defender warns about threatening calls to law critics

Civic spacePublished assessment

Freedom of association

Citizens linked abusive and threatening calls to their criticism of the foreign-influence bill. The Defender called for investigation.

Callers’ identities and responsibility were not established in this statement.

Link to record

Public Defender reports excessive force in April protests

Civic spacePublished assessment

Accountability

Monitoring identified unjustified assembly restrictions, alleged ill-treatment and attacks on journalists during the 16–17 April protests.

The Defender referred detainees’ complaints to the Special Investigation Service.

Link to record

2023

Public Defender challenges March protest dispersals

Civic spacePublished assessment

Assembly & protest

The Defender found unjustified force against peaceful participants during the 7–9 March protests against the foreign-influence bills.

He distinguished individual violence from grounds to disperse everyone.

Link to record

2022

ECtHR protects peaceful protesters’ provocative slogans

Civic spaceCourt judgment

Assembly & protest

In Peradze and Others, arresting and fining peaceful Panorama Tbilisi protesters violated freedom of assembly.

The Court assessed assembly rights in light of freedom of expression.

Link to record

2021

ECtHR condemns failure to protect the 2013 gathering

Civic spaceCourt judgment

Accountability

The Court found discriminatory ill-treatment, investigation and assembly violations in Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group and Others.

The judgment addresses the 17 May 2013 attacks.

Link to record

Police dismantle Rioni protesters’ tents

Civic spaceOfficial record

Assembly & protest

The Public Defender’s representative observed police dismantling protesters’ tents in the Rioni Gorge.

The Defender requested a nearby alternative protest location and reasons for road closures.

Link to record

2018

Oversight steps agreed after nightclub raids

Civic spaceOfficial record

Accountability

The Public Defender met the interior minister, White Noise and NGOs after the 12 May nightclub operation.

The minister promised footage; two groups would examine legality and drug-policy reform.

Link to record

2015

ECtHR rules on protection of the 2012 equality march

Civic spaceCourt judgment

Accountability

In Identoba, the Court found discriminatory failures to protect demonstrators from violence and safeguard peaceful assembly.

The judgment concerns the 17 May 2012 march.

Link to record

2013

2012

ECtHR upholds protesters’ rights in Kakabadze

Civic spaceCourt judgment

Accountability

The ECtHR found liberty, fair-trial and assembly violations concerning five activists detained after a 2006 demonstration.

This dates the judgment, not the underlying protest.

Link to record