President Mikheil Saakashvili met with leaders from the Georgian NGO sector on July 6 amid increased concerns over human rights violations in the country, particularly by law enforcement agencies. However, President Saakashvili himself cast doubts in regards to the non-governmental sector, stating that it “is in a crisis.”
Legal expert and leading civil activist Davit Usupashvili, who was at the meeting with the President, says that problems relating to the establishment of democratic institutions, supremacy of law, cases of political pressure exerted by members of the judicial system and human rights abuses by police are all main concerns for the non-governmental sector at the moment.