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Georgia regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Since 2020, Georgia has published an annual report on hate crime data following an inter-agency memorandum on co-operation. Georgia implemented ODIHR's Training Against Hate Crime for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme in 2019 and the Prosecutors and Hate Crime Training Programme (PAHCT) in 2017.

SELECT YEAR

Download the 2011 hate crime report for Georgia

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2022	1,802	1,172	585
2021	1,703	834	321
2020	989	253	109
2019	775	183	32
2018	344	151	58
2017	86	44	11
2016	42	42	15
2015	22	5	5
2014	19	7	8
2013	Not available	Not available	Not available
2012	13	5	Not available
2011	19	1	Not available
2010	41	11	Not available
2009	41	11	Not available

About 2011 Data

Figures include crimes of discrimination and persecution.

Hate crime recorded by police

National developments

Adopted amendments to the criminal code, which expands on previous hate crime laws, authorize courts, when imposing a sentence, to consider the commission of an offence on the basis of bias motivation on such grounds as "race, colour, language, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, political or other opinion, disability, nationality, citizenship, ethnic or social origin" among other factors, as an aggravating circumstance for all relevant crimes in the criminal code.

KEY OBSERVATION

No information is available.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Hate crime against Christians and members of other religions

The South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation reported one incident in which a Jehovah’s Witness was physically assaulted by three men and another incident in which two Jehovah’s Witnesses suffered knife wounds in a physical assault by a group of five men.

Anti-LGBTI hate crime

Identoba reported the physical assault of a gay man by a group of ten people and the physical assault of a gay man by his family.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that Georgia amend legislation to ensure racist motivation is considered an aggravating circumstance for all crimes; conduct awareness-raising campaigns on criminal laws on hate crime; deliver training for the criminal justice system (police, prosecutors and judges); and collect disaggregated hate crime data.