Amnesty International has published the new report about the governments in Eastern European and Central Asian countries that are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The organization said “Georgia enacted a state of emergency measures that were necessary and proportionate and motivated by legitimate public health objectives,” however, “concerns were raised that certain anti-COVID-19 measures were applied in a discriminatory fashion”.

Amnesty International noted that “contrary to medical advice, religious gatherings have not been restricted by law largely to ensure that the Georgian Orthodox Church could conduct liturgies for Orthodox Easter”.