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PRESSURE ON ISFED LONG TERM OBSERVER NANA SANIKIDZE IN LANCHKHUTI

Date: 2012-07-23
District: Lanchkhuti , Lanchkhuti
Incident Category: Intimidation, Other intimidation

2012-07-23 ISFED observer, Nana Sanikidze,is a part-time employee in Valodia Suladze State Museum under control of Lanchkhuti Cultural Center. On July 23, Lawyer of Lanchkhuti Cultural Center, Zaira Gurgenidze allegedly demanded dismissal of Nana Sanikidze from work, as if working in non-governmental organization is incompatible activity for public servant....

SPYING ON MAJORITARIAN CANDIDACY OF COALITION GEORGIAN DREAM IN CHKHOROTSKU

Date: 2012-07-23
District: Chkhorotsku , Chkhorotsku
Incident Category: Intimidation, Other intimidation

2012-07-23 Two cars were spotted spying on the house where the majoritarian candidacy of coalition Georgian Dream Levan Izoria lives on July 22. The owner of the house, Valodi Badzaghua, noticed the cars' suspicious activity so made a note of the cars' registration numbers which were reportedly BKB 170 and ZSH 999. However, upon approaching the vehicles to identify the occupants, they accelerated toward Badzaghua and crashed into his neighbour's fence. Badzaghua says that the occu...

MEETING WITH VICTIMS OF LAGODEKHI DISASTER UNDER POLICE SURVEILLANCE

Date: 2012-07-22
District: Lagodekhi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Intimidation from the law enforcement forces

2012-07-22 The meeting between the leader of Georgian Dream coalition Bidzina Ivanishvili and the victims of Lagodekhi disaster was held under the surveillance of Kakheti branch of MIA Constitutional Security Department, including Zura Grdzelishvili. They were driving a black Mercedes....

HIGH CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL'S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH THE VOTERS IN THE REGIONS – LAGODEKHI

Date: 2012-07-22
District: Lagodekhi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-22 Goga Khachidze (Minister of Environment Protection of Georgia) aggressively demanded that the representatives of Georgian Dream let him pass to meet the leader of Georgian Dream, because he is a government Minister....

DISMISSAL OF PERSON FOR POLITICAL REASONS

Date: 2012-07-20
District: Tbilisi , Tbilisi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Dismissal from work

2012-07-20 On June 2012, I was dismissed from one of the departments of a public institution where I was working as a specialist. During my employment, I have been demonstrating my position and sympathies with coalition Georgian Dream. At the staff meeting two weeks prior to dismissal, we devised tasks and were planning to implement several projects. Two weeks later, I was unexpectedly informed that my employment would cease until November and that I was to write my letter of regination immediat...

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FACT OF PERSECUTION OF MEMBER OF POLITICAL COALITION "GEORGIAN DREAM" MR. KAKHABER GOGIASHVILI UNDER PRESUMABLY POLITICAL LINING

Date: 2012-07-19
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Intimidation from the law enforcement forces

2012-08-02 Mr. Kakhaber Gogiashvili was detained for participation in Karaleti incident. According to decision of Gori city court he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative imprisonment. He was placed in insulator for temporary imprisonment of Sagarejo district, where he was an object of psychological influence and coercion from employees of the insulator. On July 25, 2012 GYLA applied to chief prosecutor of Georgia with request to start investigation of mentioned fact. GYLA also applied to m...

ORDER FOR EMPLOYEES OF MINISTRIES TO COLLECT DATA OF SUPPORTERS OF NATIONAL MOVEMENT

Date: 2012-07-19
District: Tbilisi , Tbilisi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Other intimidation, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-21 Ministry employees were ordered to collect data (name, address, ID number, telephone number) from 10 citizens who will vote for the National Movement in the elections. They are instructed to mark their voting preference in a manner that corresponds with their preferred political party e.g. 3 dots, a square etc. The process started about two weeks ago and all employees were ordered to collect the data....

THREATENING FROM GOVERNOR SHALVA KHORNAULI AGAINST ACTIVISTS OF FREE GEORGIA IN VILLAGE ARKHILOSKALO

Date: 2012-07-17
District: Dedoplistskaro , Arkhiloskalo
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-08-21 On July 17, 2012, Shalva Kornauli, a trustee of the village of Arkhiloskalo, prohibited activists of the party Free Georgia – Zhuzhuna Kenkadze and Natia Natadze from working to register supporters of the party in the village of Arkiloskalo. The party activists informed ISFED’s LTO that the village trustee prohibited them from working and moving around the territory of the village in various districts of the village....

Date: 2012-07-17
District: Tbilisi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

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TERMINATING SOCIAL WELFARE TO NELI GABELAIA IN VILLAGE KVEDA SIMONETI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Terdjola , Kveda Simoneti
Incident Category: Intimidation, Other intimidation

2012-07-13 According to Sopio Buskivadze, a representative of the coalition Georgian Dream, they stopped providing social welfare to Neli Gabelaia of the village of Kveda Simoneti after she signed a petition for the restoration of Bidzina Ivanishvili’s citizenship. Neli Gabelaia's entitlement to social welfare was cut in February, which she only discovered in March....

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES AGAINST POPULATION IN DIRBI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Qareli , Dirbi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-13 On June 26, 2012, citizens of the village of Dirbi, Kareli District, who were meeting leaders of the coalition Georgian Dream, were opposed by representatives of municipal authorities and their family from Kareli, Agara, Ruisi, Kekhijvari and Aradeti villages. Trustee of Kareli territorial agency Akaki Dolishvili, employee of Gamgeoba Levan Mchedlidze, employee of military conscription agency Alika Kvelashvili, Governor of the village of Derbi Hamlet Davrashelidze and representative o...

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PHYSICAL ASSAULT ON ACTIVIST OF FREE GEORGIA ARTEM OVSEPHIAN IN SABATLO

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Dedoplistskaro , Sabatlo
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack

2012-07-13 On June 13, 2012, in the village of Sabatlo, activist of the coalition Georgian Dream Artiom Ovsepian was physically assaulted by unknown individuals when he was working in a watermelon orchid. Artiom Ovsepian’s mother alleges that the incident had to do with her son’s political activities and notes that a week ago, when he was distributing newspapers published by Free Georgia in the village of Sabatlo, he was warned by village governor Davit Gundadze to abandon the opposition or he w...

PHYSICAL ASSAULT ON MEMBER OF GEORGIAN DREAM GIVI PAATASHVILI IN TELAVI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Telavi , Telavi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Intimidation from the law enforcement forces, Physical attack

2012-07-13 On June 25, 2012, member of the coalition Georgian Dream, Givi Paatashvili, who also works as a cab driver in Telavi, was stopped by two individuals who asked him to take them to the university. They had Paatashvili stop the car in an uninhabited place and started fighting with him, asking him how many times they had to warn him to leave the coalition Georgian Dream. The unknown men identified themselves as officers of the Constitutional Security Department....

INTIMIDATION FROM POLICE AGAINST MEMBER OF GEORGIAN DREAM, DAVIT SHENGELIA IN SENAKI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Senaki , Senaki
Incident Category: Intimidation, Intimidation from the law enforcement forces

2012-07-13 On June 17, 2012, member of the coalition Georgian Dream’s staff, Davit Shengelaia, was pulled over by the police whilst driving in his own car together with the coalition activists from Senaki to Ozurgeti. The policeman exlained to Davit Shengelaia that since he had failed to pay a previous fine for not wearing a seatbelt, they were going to impound his car. Even though Shengelaia immediately presented the receipt of payment, the car was towed by the policeman who additionally failed...

INTIMIDATION FROM POLICE AGAINST MEMBERS OF GEORGIAN DREAM IN LAGODEKHI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Lagodekhi , Lagodekhi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

2012-07-13 On June 29, 2012, at 8 am, the following members of the coalition Georgian Dream’s district organization in Lagodekhi were visited by unidentified individuals in their homes and taken away: Gogita Kevlishili, Slava Metreveli and Giorgi Jajanidze. Later, Nutsa Papava, the leader of the coalition Georgian Dream’s district organization in Lagodekhi and other members of the organization found out that Kevlishvili, Jajanidze and Metreveli had been taken to the local drug testing center in ...

INCIDENT IN VILLAGE DOESI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Kaspi , Doesi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest, Hindering carrying a campaign

2012-07-13 On June 23, 2012, citizens of the village Doesi assembled in the center of the village, requesting improvement of irrigation water supply. Suddenly they were approached by 5-6 young men that included the nephew of the village governor Giorgi Khorbaladze along with his peers who started telling the assembly participants that they had been “subordinated by Putin”. It was followed by a clash between them and the agitated participants. Khatuna Tatanashvili of Doesi, head of the district o...

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POLITICAL ARREST OF GEORGIAN DREAM ACTIVISTS AFTER INCIDENT IN MERETI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Gori , Mereti
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest, Physical attack

2012-07-13 On June 26, 2012, representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream were holding a meeting together with Bidzina Ivanishvili and Irakli Alasania in the village of Mereti, which was attended by supporters and opponents of the coalition. The meeting was followed by a clash that resulted in seven representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream sustaining bodily injuries. Two of them checked in at Gori Hospital with grave bodily injuries. Following the incident, on June 27, 2012, Gori Distr...

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FINING OF AN ACTIVIST OF GEORGIAN DREAM DIMITRI KHUMARASHVILI IN DEDOPLISTSKARO

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Dedoplistskaro , Dedoplistskaro
Incident Category: Intimidation, Intimidation from the law enforcement forces

2012-07-13 On June 10, 2012, supporter of the coalition Georgian Dream, Dimitri Khumarashvili, was driving with his family from the village Kvemo Keta to Dedoplistskaro when he was pulled over by the police. His car was towed to an impound lot in Telavi. Leader of the local office of the Georgian Dream, Nukri Khutsishvili and Dimitry Khumarashvili, believe that it had to do with the fact that Khumarashvili attended an assembly held by the coalition Georgian Dream in Kutaisi on May 2, 2012....

POLITICAL ARREST OF A GEORGIAN DREAM ACTIVIST GIA POPIASHVILI IN GAMARJVEBA

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Dedoplistskaro , Gamarjveba
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

2012-07-13 On June 10, 2012, law enforcement officers detained activist of the Georgian Dream, Gia Popiashvili, of the village of Gamarjveba. It is noteworthy that Gia Popiashvili provided transportation for supporters of the coalition Georgian Dream with a minibus for the meeting held by the coalition with local citizens on May 27 and June 2 in Dedoplistskaro. Trial was scheduled immediately after Popiashvili’s detention. The court sentenced him to 10 days of imprisonment and his vehicle was se...

ROBBERY OF THE GEORGIAN DREAM OFFICE IN GORI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Gori , Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Other intimidation

2012-07-13 On June 10, 2012, office of the coalition Georgian Dream was robbed. According to its employees, various documents and two working computers were taken. According to the head of office, Tamaz Shioshvili, the office was robbed at 6:00 am....