GEORGIA: OPPOSITION ARRESTS, BEATINGS SPARK FRESH CONTROVERSY
by Molly Corso
Aug/13/09
Less than one month after Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili pledged to step up democratic reforms, human and civil rights monitors state that a disturbing pattern of arrests, beatings and kidnappings involving opposition members and supporters has developed in Georgia over the past four months.
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