Twenty-four countries have invoked the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism on January 29 “to launch an expert mission on the deteriorating human rights situation in Georgia,” with a particular focus on developments since spring 2024. The Moscow Mechanism, part of the OSCE’s human dimension framework, allows participating countries to establish an expert mission to investigate serious human rights violations in any member country. At the time, the countries invited Georgia to provide concrete and substantive responses to a number of human rights concerns amid ongoing pro-EU protests. “Our concerns about implementation of shared human dimension commitments and international human rights obligations by the Georgian authorities have only increased,” the Swedish ambassador said. Should Georgia accept the fact-finding mission, it can participate in appointing three human rights experts from the pre-established roster.