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 7, 2015
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June 25, 2015
Dispatches: In Azerbaijan, Enough is Enough!
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June 24, 2015
Dispatches: In Azerbaijan, Enough is Enough!
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May 8, 2015
Dispatches: Let Azerbaijan Journalist Go Free
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March 31, 2015
Dispatches: 31 Hours Marooned at Azerbaijan’s Airport
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January 30, 2015
Dispatches: Jail beckons for Azerbaijani Journalist
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November 17, 2014
Dispatches: Hungary is Dragging the EU in the Wrong Direction
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November 12, 2014
Dispatches: Azerbaijan Sets New Low for Council of Europe
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August 8, 2014
Dispatches: Azerbaijan Jails Yet Another Rights Defender
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July 10, 2014
The parallel realities of President Ilham Aliev
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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