Criminal prosecution launched against 5,144 individuals for domestic violence, violence against women in 2021
Combating domestic and gender-based violence “remains one of the main priorities” of the Prosecutor’s Office, the body said. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia launched criminal prosecution against 5,144 individuals throughout the country for domestic violence and violence against women throughout 2021, the state body said on Monday.
Taken from the latest annual report, the figure from the statistics of the past year was provided in addition to a breakdown of the related annual numbers since 2014.
The breakdown shows the body initiate prosecution cases for domestic violence and violence against women with the following numbers:
- 2014 – 550 criminal prosecutions
- 2015 – 1,066 criminal prosecutions
- 2016 – 1,356 criminal prosecutions
- 2017 – 1,986 criminal prosecutions
- 2018 – 3,955 criminal prosecutions
- 2019 – 4,579 criminal prosecutions
- 2020 – 4,633 criminal prosecutions
- 2021 – 5,144 criminal prosecutions
The report also said cases of domestic violence and violence against women comprised 21.1 percent of the prosecutions launched in the past year.
Combating domestic and gender-based violence “remains one of the main priorities” of the Prosecutor’s Office, the body added.
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Electronic surveillance of those charged with domestic violence will be used in Georgia to reduce the risk of recurring crimes, the Prosecution Service of Georgia announced on Tuesday.
4,633 individuals were charged for domestic violence and crimes throughout Georgia in 2020, which is 5.4 per cent more compared to the previous year, Chief Prosecutor Irakli Shotadze said while presenting his body’s annual report today.
Human rights defenders, politicians and civil society members are concerned by disturbingly increasing numbers of brutal domestic violence cases in Georgia in recent months.
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Two individuals have been charged with degrading treatment of Khanum Jeiranova, a woman found dead in 2014 in eastern Georgia’s Sagarejo municipality following severe psychological and physical abuse from her husband’s relatives, the Prosecution Service of Georgia announced on Monday.
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