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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December 8, 2016
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October 25, 2016
Sentenced to 10 Years on False Drug Charges in Azerbaijan
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August 9, 2016
Armenia Sacks Yerevan Police Chief
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March 29, 2016
Armenia’s Cancer Patients are Victims of War on Drugs
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March 28, 2016
Dispatches: Top Rights Lawyer Freed in Azerbaijan
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March 17, 2016
Dispatches: Good News from Azerbaijan (For a Change)
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February 3, 2016
Dispatches: A Grim Milestone in Azerbaijan’s Crackdown on Critics
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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