A prison population built in two protests

Before 2024, Georgia had almost no documented political prisoners. Nearly everyone in our database was arrested since — and two-thirds of them in just two months, each following a protest the government moved to crush.

Two waves, two generations

Georgia's December 2024 crackdown filled the jails with twenty-somethings from the barricades. The October 2025 wave came for their parents' generation — party leaders, teachers, a 71-year-old opera star. Same state, same crackdown, a different target.

500 Days of Protest in Georgia

Over 500 days of protest, and the verdicts keep coming. Each sentence handed down to the October 4th demonstrators is a call for the international community to bring attention to Georgia's political prisoners before more names are added to the list.