Giorgi Gogia
Giorgi Gogia is an expert on human rights issues in South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. He has worked and written extensively on criminal justice system reform, police brutality, freedom of expression and media freedoms and property rights. He also worked and written on international humanitarian law during the armed conflicts and health and human rights. While at Human Rights Watch, Giorgi has documented excessive use of force by police in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan as well as media freedoms in Azerbaijan. He also documented human rights and humanitarian law violations during the Georgia-Russia conflict over South Ossetia in 2008, and the rights of ethnic Georgians who returned to their homes in Abkhazia, another of Georgia’s breakaway regions. He is also chair of Human Rights Watch’s Fellowship Program.
Before joining Human Rights Watch, Giorgi worked for International Crisis Group as a senior analyst, researching and writing on protracted conflicts in the South Caucasus – Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. A graduate of Central European University in Hungary, Giorgi is a PhD candidate in political science at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He speaks Georgian, English, and Russian.
Articles Authored
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January 25, 2018
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November 27, 2017
Lawyer Disbarred in Azerbaijan After Filing Torture Complaint
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November 20, 2017
New Regulations in Armenia Could Ease Suffering of Terminally Ill
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October 25, 2017
Europe Should Unite To Face Down Azerbaijan’s Defiance
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October 12, 2017
Armenia Has New Strategy to Help Terminally Ill
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October 11, 2017
Azerbaijan’s Abysmal Rights Record Under Scrutiny
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June 30, 2017
Azerbaijan Should Free Abducted Journalist
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Other Writing
Reports Authored
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Harassed, Imprisoned, Exiled
Azerbaijan’s Continuing Crackdown on Government Critics, Lawyers, and Civil Society
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