The Rustavi District Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against a 60-year-old man for animal cruelty, which is punishable by one year’s community service or a fine determined by the court, for allegedly killing a dog.
On 16 June 2017, the man, who has not been named, is alleged to have beaten the dog to death with a plank of wood with nails attached.
According to Netgazeti, the Prosecutor’s Office has asked that the court impose a bail of ₾5,000 ($2,000) before trial.
Local news outlet Info Rustavi has reported that the reason was that the dog had bitten the man 4 year previously.
Animal rights activists rallied in front of the Rustavi Prosecutor’s Office on 9 June demanding that proper punishment be imposed, with some saying he should be made an example to others.
Teimuraz Tsikoridze, chairman of the Georgian Animal Protection and Rescue Society, toldRustavi 2 that there is no real will to punish people who commit crimes against animals.
Tsikoridze raised a recent case in which the bodies of 10 dogs were discovered on Tbilisi’s Didgori Street; there were 4 puppies left in a box next to them.
When police arrived at the scene, they did not conduct an investigation, simply taking the bodies to be destroyed.
The Institute for development of Freedom of Information, a Tbilisi-based NGO, claims that most cases of violence against animals are not properly recorded or investigated by the authorities. According to the group’s research, the greatest number of investigations of animal cruelty were launched in the 2015–2016, with 21 cases were launched in 2015 and 15 in 2016.
According to activists, the killing of stray dogs and abandoning small puppies in bins is commonplace in Georgia.
In Azerbaijan, animal rights activists have been protesting the illegal shooting of dogs by municipal authorities, but are doing so in the face of legal challenges and police brutality.
‘We often see blood on the streets,’ says Kamran Mammadli, a 27-year-old vegan activist.
Mammadli has been engaged in animal rights activism since the movement began to gain momentum in Azerbaijan, around four years ago. He tells OC Media that state violence against stray dogs played a driving role in the mo
Animal rights activists staged a protest in front of the Toplan Centre for Stray Dogs in Baku. They have claimed that rather than taking care of the stray dogs the centre kills them.
The 8 July protest was attended by roughly two dozen protesters, who held up signs and chanted ‘don’t kill dogs’. Shortly after the demonstration began, police broke up the protest and detained five participants.
Nijat Ismayilov, one of the detainees, told OC Media that police took the activists to a police sta
Hundreds of seals listed in Russia’s Red Book of endangered species have been washing up dead on the Caspian coast in the Daghestan in what activists warn could amount to an environmental disaster.
On Wednesday, ecologists found the remains of 125 Caspian seals on the shores near the capital, Makhachkala — a record for a single day. Ecologists and scientists studying the Caspian Sea have said that around 17–30 corpses are washing up per day.
Footage of beaches littered with dead animals rel
Police in Baku have broken up a small demonstration by animal rights activists angered by the killing of stray dogs.
Activists reported that six people were detained during the protest on Monday, with police not reporting the reasons for the detentions.
One of the protesters, Sanay Yaghmur, told OC Media that there were around 15 people at the demonstration and that police intervened as soon as it began. She said that one of the organisers, Nijat Ismayilov, was detained in his home by police
The Rustavi District Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against a 60-year-old man for animal cruelty, which is punishable by one year’s community service or a fine determined by the court, for allegedly killing a dog.
