2020-09-30 On August 29, a rally against Pankisi community radio WAY was held in village Duisi of Akhmeta Municipality, organized by Lia Margoshvili, head of the Roddy Scott Foundation. Participants of the rally threatened to invade the studio of the community radio and demanded the founder of the community radio, journalist Gela Mtvlivishvili to abandon his professional activities in the Pankisi Gorge. According to the radio, their office and the office of the foundation are in the same building. The foundation wants to purchase the entire building. After the radio requested information on possible privatization of the building, Akhmeta Mayor Ioseb Karumashvili told the head of the Roddy Scott Foundation that they would no longer give them the building and advised her to gather people and demand transfer of the building. According to the radio, Lia Margoshvili is an activist of the Georgian Dream and their representative for the elections in the Duisi area, and that the rally was organized under the instructions of Akhmeta City Hall officials and the State Security Service representatives. Representatives of the radio believe that this is related to their impartial activities and critical coverage of the local authorities. According to them, participants of the rally included: minor students of the Roddy Scott Foundation, their parents, relatives of young men who recently beat up a father and son for wearing shorts in the street in Kvareltskali village, as well as members of Akhmeta Assembly from Pankisi villages, employees of the administrative unit of Duisi of Akhmeta Municipality City Hall, several teachers of Duisi public school, up to four employees of a non-governmental organization working in the area and the State Security Service officers’ family members. The municipality council members did not object to calls containing signs of violence voiced at the rally. Lia Margoshvili told ISFED observers that she has her own arguments and that she did not intimidate or harass Gela Mtvlivishvili and the radio because the management of the British foundation would disapprove of such actions. Further, according to her, she was reprimanded by the Municipality Mayor for organizing a rally in the pre-election period, because it would not benefit anyone.