The Public Defender met with the Ambassador of the European Union in Georgia

On June 17, 2024, the Public Defender of Georgia Levan Ioseliani and the First Deputy Public Defender Tamar Gvaramadze met the Ambassador of the European Union to Georgia Paweł Herczyński. Information about this is distributed by the Office of the Public Defender.

According to their reports, at the meeting, they talked about the state of fulfillment of the measures and obligations to be implemented for Georgia's accession to the European Union, and discussed the role of the public defender in this direction.

"The parties also talked about the expected results of the implementation of the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence, the condition of those arrested and injured during the protests against the law, including those still in pretrial detention, and the progress of the study of their cases by the Special Investigation Service.

The ambassador of the European Union was also interested in the observation mandate of the Office of the Public Defender at the parliamentary elections and the prevention of the harmful practice of using hate speech during the pre-election campaign," the information said.