Eva Anderson

About Eva Anderson

Eva Anderson is a British barrister and recently joined Transparency International Georgia as a Senior Analyst.
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Georgian elections: international monitors help defuse tension

By on 24 October 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government

By the early hours of October 2, polling stations had closed and the Georgian parliamentary elections appeared to have passed without any major violations. Official ballot counts were nearly complete when one of our observers reported that armed special forces had stormed several polling stations in the west of the country, demanded that observers leave [...]

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Prison Abuse Protests: Georgia’s Abu Ghraib

By on 26 September 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, People power, Politics and government, Whistleblowing

On September 18 Georgian opposition television stations warned their evening audiences that they were about to broadcast disturbing images of abuse by wardens at Gldani prison Nr. 8 in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital city. Many viewers were nevertheless unprepared for what they saw next. One video contained graphic images of prison inmates being sodomized by guards [...]

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