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10-year Action Plan for Strategic Development of the Ministry of Justice

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Wednesday, 04 August, 2021
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10-year Action Plan for Strategic Development of the Ministry of Justice

If you live in a village that is far from the Public Service Hall and the Community Center, you will no longer have to travel long distances. "Mobile Public Service Hall" will visit you in the village and you will receive the service you want on the spot without leaving home. This is one of the components of the 10-year action plan of the Ministry of Justice. Along with Online University, Personal Assistant, Just App and Probbox, the agency plans to introduce dozens of new services over the next 10 years.

Just App - "Digital Public Service Hall" - is one of the large-scale projects planned by the Ministry of Justice. A unified state application (Just App) will be created, in which electronic services will be integrated. With the Just App, a citizen will be able to access public services remotely using his or her mobile phone, without having to visit the public service hall.

The Public Service Hall will offer a whole new concept to the business sector as well. The main task of the "Personal Assistant" will be to provide high quality remote consulting or services to the customer. This service will be especially convenient for business organizations. In addition, the Public Service Hall will create special spaces for premium services, where the business entity will be able to receive services tailored only to the needs of the business, in a completely different concept environment.

Probbox - is another innovative project of the Ministry of Justice. If before, probationers had to travel long distances to register, now they will go through this procedure through probbox. The devices will be installed in Public Service Halls, Community Centers and local municipal buildings. Registration will become much easier for probationers through the various identification devices built into it.

The subject of special care of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia is crime prevention, probation, professional training of convicts, construction of small, family-type institutions and completely new types of prisons. For the first time in Georgia, a European-standard prison for up to 700 convicts will be opened in Laituri early next year.

Caring for the professional development of convicts is one of the priority directions of the Ministry. Digital University serves this very purpose. The project provides online lecture courses for prisoners led by lecturers accredited by various universities.

The Justice Ministry is also taking concrete steps to eradicate the Soviet legal legacy. Legislative changes will be prepared to bring the current legal norms fully in line with the standards established in modern law. There will no longer be any legal institutions and approaches from the Soviet period in Georgia.

The registration of the land fund remains a strategic direction of the Ministry. The process of initial registration of land plots will be completed during the action plan period. More than 1,000,000 hectares will be registered, which means an additional 1,200,000 registered plots of land. Up to 2700 villages will get verified addresses and a complete address registry will be created.

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Memorial Ceremony for Victims of the 1990s Armed Conflict Held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral

Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze, members of the Government, and Minister of Justice Paata Salia attended the civil funeral service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi for individuals transferred from the occupied region of Abkhazia who had gone missing during the armed conflict of the 1990s.

Paata Salia honored the memory of the deceased and extended his condolences to their families and loved ones.

Through the joint efforts of the Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality and the International Committee of the Red Cross, and within the framework of a coordination mechanism involving Georgian and Abkhaz participants, 11 missing persons were identified and returned to their families. Among them were 2 military personnel and 9 civilians.
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According to the Strasbourg Court, Publicly Made Insulting, Obscene, and Degrading Statements Fall Outside the Scope of Freedom of Expression

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg upheld the position of the Ministry of Justice in the case of Miladze v. Georgia, confirming that publicly made insulting, obscene, and degrading statements directed at public officials are not protected under the right to freedom of expression.

The case concerned a video published on the social media platform TikTok in 2022, in which the applicant, civil activist Irakli Miladze, used obscene and insulting language toward the Mayor of Tbilisi, City Hall employees, and police officers. As a result, the national courts imposed a fine of 500 GEL, the minimum penalty provided for by law.

The Strasbourg Court unanimously held that the applicant’s statements did not amount to political criticism or the expression of views on a matter of public interest. According to the Court’s assessment, the language used was intended primarily to humiliate and insult public officials.

The Court also agreed with the reasoning of the national courts, noting that they had properly distinguished between harsh political criticism, which is protected in a democratic society, and personal insults, which are not. The judgment further emphasized that the sanction imposed on the applicant was minimal and proportionate, as he received only the lowest fine available under the law.

Today’s ruling by the Strasbourg Court reaffirmed an important principle: freedom of expression is one of the fundamental values of a democratic society and protects even strong and offensive criticism; however, it does not extend to humiliating or personally insulting statements directed at others, including public officials and civil servants.

The judgment further underscores that the state is entitled to protect political officials and public servants from unjustified verbal abuse and insults, ensuring that they are able to perform their duties in an environment free from attacks that undermine their dignity.

The Court’s assessment once again highlights the fundamental importance of freedom of expression, while clearly establishing that the exercise of this right — particularly on the internet and social media platforms — must not infringe upon the dignity and rights of others.
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