Public Defender of Georgia
Nino Lomjaria

Place of birth

Ozurgeti

Education

2006 - graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University with a Master's degree in Law;

2011- graduated from University of Washington, DC, St. Louis, USA, with a Master's Degree Program

Professional Experience

2003-2004 - Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA), assistant at the Legal Aid Center;

2005-2007 - Georgian Young Lawyers Association, lawyer;

2008-2010 - Georgian Young Lawyers Association, coordinator of election projects;

2011 - Washington, DC, assistant of professor of law;

2014-2015 - Visiting Professor at Ilia State University;

2011-2015 - International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), executive director;

2015-2016 - Network of European Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), secretary-general;

2016 - International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), legal and election consultant;

2016-2017 - State Audit Office, first deputy Auditor General;

Since 2017 - University of Georgia, visiting lecturer;

Since 2017- Public Defender of Georgia

Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Relations with Russia
Zurab Abashidze
President of Georgia
Salome Zurabishvili
Speaker of Parliament of Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili
Tea Tsulukiani to Levan Ioseliani: People who are not in politics and are members of a politician's family have been banned from traveling, isn't that your business? - You should protect everyone, don't be ashamed of our existence
David McAllister to Georgian civil society: You are not alone, we are with you - thank you for everything you have done for Georgia and continue to do so!
Nino Lomjaria: NGOs join the idea of ​​the May 9 Unity and Freedom Day and call on everyone: to stand together, on Europe Square – on May 9, at 19:00, and together make our choice
Nino Lomjaria on amendments to Law on Grants: The illegitimate government is adopting an act of persecution of the Georgian people
Nino Lomjaria: More than 50 people have been arrested since November, and 19 people were also arrested during the protests against the “Russian law” last year - procedural actions carried out in these cases are illegal
Nino Lomjaria: If this is really FARA, it should not apply to NGOs and the media, and if they apply, then it will be the “Russian Law 3” - no one is going to say that they are agents of a foreign country for fear of criminal liability
NGOs: The case against Zviad Tsetskhladze, Irakli Miminoshvili, Vasil Kadzelashvili, Vepkhia Kasradze, Giorgi Gorgadze, Nikoloz Javakhishvili, Tornike Goshadze and Insaf Aliyev is “artificially made up and politically motivated
Nino Lomjaria: Tomorrow, we will march from Europe Square to Freedom Square to reject Russian authoritarianism, support political prisoners of the regime, and show the world our unity
Nino Lomjaria: We conveyed to Salome Zurabishvili our wishes, what we want to voice to Western partners  - we must constantly tell them that Russian and autocratic influences are being strengthened in Georgia
Nino Lomjaria names the police officers, prosecutors, and judges who are "responsible for fabricating false and baseless charges against civil activists"
Nino Lomjaria: Demonstrators are being massively and unjustifiably fined with disproportionately high fines, on the grounds of "illegally blocking the roadway" - this is not confirmed in the evidence presented by the police
Nino Lomjaria: Citizens dismissed from about 20 state institutions
Non-governmental organizations report that since November 28, there have been notifications regarding the detention of 10 women. According to the women, the special forces physically assaulted them, threatened them with rape, and threatened to kill them
Nino Lomjaria: More than 30 participants of the protest have been arrested under criminal law. Among the detainees are up to 10 students, as well as a doctor, a journalist, actors, representatives from the academic field, and political parties
NGOs: Along with the beatings, the special forces robbed the detainees, took away their clothes, shoes, mobile phones, bags, wallets, glasses, crosses - they forced them to say derogatory phrases about themselves or to praise "Zviad Kharazishvili"
Nino Lomjaria: the judges were not interested in the conditions under which the torturers were punished - when the victims started telling their stories, they silenced them and told them that these facts did not concern them
Nino Lomjaria: there is systematic torture, inhumane and degrading treatment - each fact is documented by us and we provide the information to the international community
Prosecutor: Nino Lomjaria did not present any new evidence, which she personally witnessed, different from the facts of the possible election fraud
Oleksii Reznikov - Russia, in reality, is a paper tiger
A Korean tamada: Opening of the Korean Embassy in Tbilisi
Israeli Ambassador to Georgia - Our strategy is not to have Hamas controlling the Gaza Strip - Unfortunately, the UN cooperates with Hamas, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch work in favor of Hamas