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

Kakha Kaladze on Opposition Alliance - This is a unity of immoral people - it doesn’t matter if they are alone or together, 0+0, nothing changes
Shalva Papuashvili - I would like to tell Peter Fischer not to make the Georgian people, especially the Georgian Dream and its voters an object of contempt - he destroyed the 30-year-old close partnership between Georgia and Germany in 3 years
Shalva Papuashvili - Lomjaria's NGO received millions of lari in funding from Brussels instantly, such facts strengthen suspicion that EU grants are being issued for corrupt purposes
Nino Lomjaria: Kobakhidze admitted that the substance under that code was mixed into the water, the same code BBC spoke about; BBC’s expert said that under that code ‘Camite’ is the mildest - a horror has happened! This was a chemical spray, not water!
Nino Lomjaria: Even if parties are banned, there must still be a plan - The political process cannot be dead and the public must not feel that politicians are not preparing, even for snap elections called unexpectedly
Shalva Papuashvili: The constitutional lawsuit will be ready tomorrow - I advise Lelo to consult Nino Lomjaria if they are interested in the constitutionality of party bans - archives are a good thing, look at the lawsuit prepared by Lomjaria
Vasil Ivanov-Chikovan: 'Georgian Dream' has tailored the law to its own desires and objectives; if administrative and criminal detention fail to suppress it, the protest will continue and may take on new forms
Lawyers - In the case of Zviad Devdariani, the judge did not share the recommendation issued by the former Public Defender, Nino Lomjaria
Lawyers – In the Zviad Devdariani case, the court ordered some defendants to retract the false information they had spread
Non-governmental organizations: We express outrage over the act of torture that occurred inside a police station, which resulted in the death of Alan Kakhi­tashvili – today, in 2025, people are still being killed inside police stations
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
The South Caucasus: Strategic Autonomy Needed
Estonian Ambassador: I will be leaving Tbilisi later this week - Does my departure reflect the current state of relations between Georgia and Estonia? Of course it does - I cannot hide that
UAE’s Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy - “We will leave no stone unturned to make sure that we do defend ourselves”