National Statistics Office: 9,144 victims of domestic violence identified in 2020 in Georgia
The highest number of victims of domestic violence was recorded in Tbilisi last year. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Police identified 9,144 victims of domestic violence and 8,716 abusers throughout Georgia in 2020, reports the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
Geostat reports that 7,573 women and 1,571 men were victims of domestic violence across the country in 2020.
As for the abusers, 7,197 were men and 1,519 were women.
The highest number of victims of domestic violence was recorded in Tbilisi last year.
The data on the victims and perpetrators by regions and ages. Photo: Geostat.
Police identified 4,203 victims of domestic violence and 3,958 abusers in Tbilisi. The victims of violence and the majority of perpetrators are of the 25-44 age category.
As for the regions of Georgia, last year the highest number of domestic violence (852) were recorded in the Adjara region, while the lowest number of the crimes (222) were recorded in southern Samtskhe-Javakheti region.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvii met with representatives of the public, local non-governmental and international organisations to discuss steps to be taken against domestic violence in the country.
4,564 individuals were charged for domestic violence and crimes throughout Georgia in 2019, Deputy Interior Minister Nino Tsatsiashvili said at a briefing today.
Police have detained the former head of Patrol Police Department David Tsinaridze for domestic violence.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has presented a bill to the government of Georgia which aims to prevent domestic violence and ensure better protection and further support for victims of violence.
Businessman Davit Kodua, brother of ex-official Erekle Kodua, has been sent to pre-trial detention for violence against his wife and daughter.
Minister of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia Thea Tsulukiani has urged Beso Zanguri, an actor at the Rustaveli Theatre troupe in Tbilisi, to "immediately leave the theatre" following allegations of domestic abuse dating back 11 years and made against him by on Rustavi 2 channel on Monday.
Georgia's internationally renowned theatre director Robert Sturua has come under criticism after comparing alleged revelations of domestic abuse involving an actor at Tbilisi's Rustaveli Theatre to "women starting 1937 [Soviet] repressions" on social media.
Georgia’s special investigation service has arrested two security police officers for domestic violence and uncovered physical and psychological violence committed by an officer against their family members, the agency announced on Friday.
A man has been charged with premediated murder and violation of a restraining order after stabbing his girlfriend in the presence of her three underage children on Sunday in the eastern Kakheti region city of Telavi, the prosecutor’s office of Georgia said on Tuesday.
Female victims of violence were invited to meet representatives of the Georgian prosecutor general’s office on Wednesday in a meeting hosted as part of the body’s recently launched national campaign against femicide.
The prosecutor’s office of Georgia has charged two individuals with sexual abuse of a minor and domestic violence against a teenage daughter, the state body announced on Thursday.