Georgia is going to take the hatred towards LGBT into the scope of crime

European Commission against non-tolerance and discrimination (ECRI) recommended Georgian government to amend Georgian criminal law by adding hate crimes directed against members of ethnic and religious minority groups as a general aggravating circumstance. Complying with the recommendation, Georgian authority elaborated new-draft law that covered religious and ethnic minorities.

 

By augmenting sexual orientation and gender identity, Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association (GYLA) along with LGBT-Georgia submitted its own draft in which Sexual orientation and gender identity were included. The majority of parliamentary committee fully upheld the initiatives and sexual orientation and gender identity first appeared in the official version of draft law.

 

The law should undertake two plenary hearing; Georgian LGBT organizations hope that the parliament will not reject to adopt the bill.