Historic Milestones in Georgia
JANUARY 17, 2017—ECHR Tsartsidze judgment holds that Georgia judiciary and law-enforcement officials failed to protect Witnesses from religiously-motivated violent attacks
DECEMBER 10, 2014—Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses is registered in Georgia under public law, thereby improving the status of the religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses
OCTOBER 7, 2014—ECHR Begheluri judgment holds that Georgia law-enforcement officials failed to protect Witnesses from religiously-motivated violent attacks
APRIL 6, 2013—Witnesses expand their office in Tbilisi
MAY 3, 2007—European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Gldani judgment holds that Georgia law-enforcement officials failed to protect Witnesses from religiously-motivated violent attacks
NOVEMBER 28, 2003—Reregistration of the Branch of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (USA) in Georgia; persecution abates soon after
FEBRUARY 22, 2001—Supreme Court of Georgia annuls registration of the Witnesses’ legal entities; persecution escalates
OCTOBER 17, 1999—Systematic persecution of the Witnesses begins with a mob attack in Gldani and spreads throughout Georgia
APRIL 27, 1999—Georgia becomes the 41st member state of the Council of Europe
JUNE 11, 1998—Witnesses register a legal entity, Branch of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (USA) in Georgia
APRIL 17, 1998—Witnesses register a legal entity, The Union of Jehovah’s Witnesses
1969—First group of Jehovah’s Witnesses organizes for worship
1953—A citizen of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic who became one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in a Nazi concentration camp returns and begins her religious activity