Forty-eight hours, counted from when
Article 281¹ of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia sets one specific deadline: a decision of the district (city) court on administrative detention may be appealed within 48 hours of its issuance. The wording repays attention. The clock starts when the decision is issued — not when it is served on the person, not when they read it, and not when a lawyer enters the case. The practical consequence is that the 48 hours run while the person is already in detention and their contact with the outside world is limited. For that reason the counting of this period has to become somebody's explicit responsibility from the first hours, rather than something that is noticed once the file is finally reviewed.
The rule has a further consequence: what matters is not only which day the decision was issued but which hour. The first practical step is therefore to establish and write down the exact time of issuance, ideally from the copy of the decision itself. Until that time is known, nobody can say how much of the window is left, or whether it has already closed.