Human Rights Developments

Defending Human Rights

The Role of the International Community

An innovative project adopted in 1998 by the Tbilisi City Council, the City Lawyer program, was shut down in March by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The project, designed and administered in cooperation with nongovernmental organizations, had stationed lawyers hired by the city in police stations to provide twenty-four-hour-a-day legal consultations free of charge to those detained in police lockups in the metropolitan area.