Levan Ramishvili
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Levan Ramishvili (28 March, 1973) is a key figure in the Georgia’s democracy movement, which successfully forced authoritarian Eduard Shevardnadze to resign through strategic nonviolent action. Since 1996 he is one of the founders and director of the prominent Georgian human rights and public interest advocacy organization, the Liberty Institute. He was actively involved in trainings for civil activists, and in 2003, trained Kmara activists in nonviolent campaigning techniques. He is author of the country’s Freedom of Information law, the law on Freedom of Speech and Expression, law on Broadcasting, student rights and academic freedom chapter in laws on General Education and Higher Education.
He is a long-time civil liberties activist, and became involved in civil liberties battles in 1991 as an active member of student movement for Georgia's Liberation. Later in 1992 he was actively campaigning against nationalistic government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
In 1992 he got involved with Center of Social Management at the Cabinet of Ministries and in 1994 he was appointed as a chair of division of sociology in international center for federal development of Georgia. He was actively engaged in journalistic work working as a co-editor for newspaper "Mimomkhilveli" in 1992, co-editor with newspapers: "Business Courier" (international politics, world economy) 1994 and "Argumenti" (International reporting, letters to editor) 1995/96. In 1996/97 he worked as a political analyst with independent TV Channel Rustavi 2.
