Our Mission

The Georgian Accountability Project (GAP) is an independent civic research initiative dedicated to the systematic documentation of threats to democratic governance, human rights, and European integration in Georgia.

We build a publicly accessible, evidence-based database that tracks administrative persecution of protesters, police misconduct, judicial patterns, and the individuals and institutions responsible. Every record on our platform is derived from official court documents, police protocols, and verified testimony — never from rumor or allegation.

GAP collects, structures, and publishes data that no one else has made available in one place: protest fines and their patterns, court case analyses identifying contradictions in witness testimonies, and accountability profiles of public officials involved in the suppression of civil liberties.

Our work serves a dual purpose. First, we inform Georgian society by making scattered and inaccessible records available in a structured, searchable format. Second, we provide decision-ready, evidence-based documentation to international decision-makers, governments, and institutions that have the authority to act.

Individuals documented as bearing responsibility for systematic violations of human rights and democratic norms can be held accountable under international law. GAP works to ensure that our evidence meets the strict evidentiary and procedural standards required by international accountability mechanisms, including:

GAP does not impose sanctions, nor do we make legal determinations of guilt. What we do is build the factual foundation — verified, structured, and publicly available — so that those with the mandate to act can do so on the basis of evidence rather than politics.

We also support the work of investigative journalists, international media, and civil society organizations by making our data freely accessible for reporting and advocacy.

Since 2024, thousands of Georgian citizens have faced administrative fines, detentions, and criminal proceedings for exercising their constitutional rights to assembly and free expression. Peaceful protesters have been subjected to disproportionate force, politically motivated prosecutions, and financial penalties designed to suppress dissent. These cases are scattered across courtrooms, police databases, and personal files — invisible to the public and to international observers.

GAP makes them visible.

By bringing these records together in one place, we create a body of evidence that cannot be ignored — not by domestic institutions, and not by the international community.

We operate under international best practices in investigative journalism and human rights documentation. Our methodology draws on the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations developed by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the standards of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on the balance between public accountability and the right to privacy.

Every investigation follows a multi-stage verification process. Every published record meets the two-source rule or is based on primary legal documents. Our full methodology and editorial standards are published on this website and are available for public scrutiny.

GAP does not accept funding or direction from any political party, government, or foreign state. We apply our methodology uniformly, regardless of the political affiliation of the individuals documented. We are committed to factual accuracy, procedural fairness, and the right of reply.

We are not activists, and we are not prosecutors. We are documenters. The facts speak for themselves.