Sex Offender Registry to be created in Georgia soon
The creation of the registry is defined by a special draft law on Combating Crime against Sexual Freedom and Sexual Inviolability. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia is creating a registry of persons convicted of sex crimes, the ministry reports today.
The creation of the registry is defined by a special draft law on Combating Crime against Sexual Freedom and Sexual Inviolability.
In February 2019, ruling Georgian Dream party MPs drafted a bill which makes sexual harassment a punishable offence.
The registry aims to prevent the crimes against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability and to simplify the identification of sex crimes,” reads the explanatory note of the draft law.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs will process the personal data of convicts, while the rules of creation the list and processing of personal data will be defined by the order of the Interior Minister.
A sex offender registry is a system in various countries designed to allow government authorities to keep track of the activities of sex offenders, including those who have completed their criminal sentences.
The Georgian police have arrested a man accused of sexually harassing adolescents online and violating their right to privacy.
The Georgian Interior Ministry reports that 116 individuals were charged in 2018 for various offences committed against minors.
Ruling Georgian Dream party MPs have drafted a bill which makes sexual harassment a punishable offence.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has drafted a bill which provides civil restrictions and tougher punishment for those convicted of sexual crimes against minors.
The grandfather of a nine-year-old girl killed in Gori back in October 2018 said the court has already delivered the verdict all of Georgia was waiting for, a life sentence.
The Georgian MPs have unanimously approved a bill on sexual harassment with 102 votes in favor and 0 against.
A man in Georgia’s western town of Kutaisi has been fined after sexually harassing a woman. The woman said that the man asked her to have sex in what she thought was an abusive and inappropriate manner.
A 35-year-old woman has been detained in Tbilisi who forced her 12 and 13-year-old children to beg for money on central Pekini Street, threatening them with physical and sexual exploitation if they refused to do so.
Georgian and Ukrainian state security agencies have prevented the premediated murder of two individuals in Georgia by car bomb.
Six Georgian citizens who have been detained in a joint Georgian-Ukrainian raid for attempted car bomb attack in Georgia, were sent to pretrial detention earlier today, with four of the detainees having previous criminal record.
5,334 crimes were registered in Georgia in January 2020, which is 400 cases fewer compared to the same period of the last year. 1,314 of the cases have been resolved, the Georgian Interior Ministry told IPN news agency.