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THREATENING AGAINST TEACHER, MARIKA ONIANI BY THE ATTORNEY OF VILLAGE DABLATSIKHE

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Chokhatauri , Dablatsikhe
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-07-13 On June 17, 2012, trustee of the village of Dablatsikhe in Chokhatauri Munucipality, Bezhan Khabeishvili, “advised” Dabaltsikhe public school teacher Marika Oniani against attending the assembly of the coalition Georgian Dream in Ozurgeti or she would face problems....

THREATENING AGAINST NANI GOGELIA BY THE ATTORNEY OF VILLAGE GANAKHLEBA

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Chokhatauri , Ganakhleba
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-07-13 On June 17, 2012, trustee of the village of Ganakhleba in Chokhatauri Municipality, Otar Dolidze, threatened Nani Gogelia, telling her that if her children attended the assembly organized by the coalition Georgian Dream, she’d be in trouble....

INTIMIDATING RESIDENTS OF VILLAGES IN KHARAGAULI MUNICIPALITY

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Kharagauli , Partskhnali
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-07-13 Representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream were holding public meetings in villages of Kharagauli Municipality from June 5 to June 8, 2012. At the same time, local citizens were warned by village trustees, their deputies, Sakrebulo members and other civil servants, including the head of Kharagauli’s Social Services Agency Kiazo Gamrekelishvili, against participating in public meetings of the coalition Georgian Dream. Similar events occurred in the villages of Partskhnali, Khidari...

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT MEMBER’S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH THE VOTERS IN THE REGIONS – KARALETI IDP SETTLEMENT

Date: 2012-07-12
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Levan Maisuradze (Trustee of the settlement). Brothers, Gogita and Giga Gochashvili (representatives of Eredvi and Qurta municipalities). Gia Chulukhadze(foreman of the refugee settlement). Vano Midodashvili, Beso Kakhnisvili(representatives of local authority). All of the above mentioned people were directly involved in physical confrontation....

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PARTICIPATION OF THE LOCAL ADMINISTRATION’S REPRESENTATIVES IN THE DISRUPTING OF MEETINGS WITH THE ELECTORATE

Date: 2012-07-11
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Hindering carrying a campaign

2012-07-11 In the village of Dici, Gori region, the head of the local administration, Zurab Bolashvili, tried to disrupt a meeting of the Georgian Dream’s representatives with the locals....

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT MEMBER’S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS WITH THE VOTERS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY IN THE REGIONS – NIKOZI VILLAGE

Date: 2012-07-10
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Ilia Mindiashvili (Trustee), his two sisters and cousin’s wife gathered with supporters to meet Georgian dream activists, including Kakha Kaladze and Nineli Chankvetadze. As a result, they interrupted the meeting and demanded opposition to leave the territory....

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT MEMBER’S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH THE VOTERS IN THE REGIONS – VARIANI VILLAGE

Date: 2012-07-10
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Iza Kokauri (employee of the City Council, chief specialist of the local governance body), Tako Kokauri (his son, a teacher and a member of the Election Commission) – They were shouting, and they demanded the opposition leave the village and prevented the meeting from being held....

PARTY ASSIGNMENTS TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Date: 2012-07-05
District: Tbilisi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 According to information provided by employees of some governmental agencies (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection, Revenue Service of the city of Rustavi), their superiors are instructing them to create lists of the ruling party’s supporters. Meetings took place in the abovementioned agencies where the direct superiors gave orders to their subordinates to make up a list of at least five ruling party supporters and threatened to create problems if they fail...

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT MEMBER’S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH THE VOTERS IN THE REGIONS – MERETI VILLAGE

Date: 2012-06-26
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Levan Bidzinashvili (Specialist at the Gori Municipality) participated in a physical confrontation and demonstrated active behavior. Vasiko Tevdorashvili (trustee of the Mereti territorial authority) argued with Irakli Alasania. Kakha Lomidze (trustee and the head of emergency department at the Governor's Office) participated in physical confrontation. Eldar Elbakidze (employee of the emergency service) participated in a physical confrontation. Other workers of the emergency serv...

THREATENING AGAINST ACTIVIST OF COALITION GEORGIAN DREAM SERGO BREGADZE IN TKIBULI

Date: 2012-06-25
District: Tkibuli , Tkibuli
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-06-25 On 16 June, 2012 Employee of Tkibuli Sakrebulo, Davit Kvachantiradze threatened supporter of "Georgian Dream" Sergo Bregadze. He explained that it would be better for Bregadze to refrain from supporting "Georgian Dream" due to the fact that they had his personal information....

THREATENING AGAINST ISFED'S LTO IN CHALADIDI

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Khobi , Chaladidi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-06-15 On May 18, 2012, Irakli Alasania was holding a meeting with the population of Chaladidi village, Khobi Municipality, when ISFED’s long-term observer Maka Lataria arrived to attend the meeting. The lead specialist at the youth and sports department of Gamgeoba, Vladimer Chitanava, made threats against Maka publicly, telling her to leave the place....

THREATENING AGAINST FOOTBALLERS IN KASPI

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Kaspi , Kaspi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-06-15 Kaspi District Tournament was planned to be held on May 15, 2012. District inspectors visited footballers in their homes right before the tournament, preventing them from attending the game on time. As a result, they lost the game. In addition, they were not allowed to wear the Georgian Dream t-shirts....

THREATENING AGAINST MINI-BUS DRIVER GIORGI BOCGORISHVILI IN TKIBULI

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Tkibuli , Tkibuli
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-06-15 On May 30, 2012, representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream’s Tkibuli regional office agreed with a mini-bus driver, Giorgi Bochorishvili to provide a transportation service for the Coalition in the rally to be held in Kutaisi on June 7, 2012. An official of Gamgeoba met with the driver after several hours and suggested in a 'friendly manner’ that he ought to sever all ties with the coalition Georgian Dream....

PHONE CALL THREATS IN ZUGDIDI

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Zugdidi , Zugdidi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-06-15 On May 4, 2012, a phone-call was made from a telephone number 599 20 97 68 to ISFED’s long-time observer. The coordinator contacted representatives of several different parties, and it turned out that similar phone calls were made to representatives of the Republican Party. They received calls warning them against joining the coalition Georgian Dream and additionally suggested that they should distance themselves from political processes; they were also verbally attacked....

THREATENING AGAINST RESIDENT OF MANAVI, VANO BURDULADZE

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Sagarejo , Manavi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-06-15 On May 22, 2012, Vano Burduladze of Manavi made a statement on Channel 9 TV about being summoned by Sagarejo Gamgeoba. They had him testify in writing that the handymen installing Global TV antennas were wearing coalition Georgian Dream t-shirts and were engaged in the promotion of the coalition....

THREATENING AGAINST TAXI DRIVER LEXO DEMETRASHVILI IN KVARELI

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Khvareli , Kvareli
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-06-15 On May 26,2012, police officers approached a taxi driver, Lexo Demetrashvili, at the taxi station and demanded that he followed them to the police department. Upon arrival, he was met by Levan Tsikulashvili and Iashvili, possibly security service officers, who advised him against providing service to members of the Georgian Dream. Demetrashvili commented to Channel 9 TV journalists about the incident....

PRESSURE ON PRINCIPAL OF BORI PUBLIC SCHOOL HAMLET BERADZE

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Kharagauli , Bori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening

2012-06-15 On June 1, 2012, ISFED’s LTO, Ketino Pavlidze, learned that principal of Bori public school, Hamlet Beradze, was pressured to dismiss Ketino Pavladze, certified teacher of chemistry at Tsklaraporeti and Bori public schools. ISFED found out that the principal received a telephone call and was instructed to dismiss the teacher since she was ‘affiliated with a political party’, as her brother is an activist of the coalition Georgian Dream....

THREATENING AGAINST TEACHER ELENE POPIASHVILI FOR POLITICAL REASONS IN DEDOPLISTSKARO

Date: 2012-05-21
District: Dedoplistskaro , Dedoplistskaro
Incident Category: Intimidation, Dismissal from work, Threatening

2012-05-21 According to Elene Popiashvili, a math teacher at a Dedoplistskaro public school, the head of the resource center demanded the school principal, Ia Lapiashvili, to have Elene Popiashvili write a resignation letter. In a private conversation with Elene Popiashvili, the school principal cited the fact that Ms. Elene Popiashvili is a spouse of Giorgi Nasrashvili, an activist of the Coalition Georgian Dream’s district office, as the reason. Elene Popiashvili refused to willingly write the...

THREATENING PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER SOSO MELASHVILI IN AMBROLAURI

Date: 2012-05-21
District: Ambrolauri , Ambrolauri
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Intimidation on business

2012-05-21 In early April 2012, during a two-week period, representatives of the Georgian Dream reached an agreement with Soso Melashvili about renting an office space. When Georgian Dream's representatives were ready to conclude the agreement, he refused to rent the space without giving any specific reason....

DISPERSAL OF ACTIVISTS OF "GEORGIAN DREAM" IN KUTAISI

Date: 2012-05-21
District: Kutaisi , Kutaisi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Hindering carrying a campaign

2012-05-21 On May 1, 2012, the youth wing of the Georgian Dream organized an assembly outside the office of the self-governance to celebrate the holiday Kutaisoba on May 2 by holding candles. However, the Cleaning Service then used water cannons against the demonstrators, damaging a vehicle that belonged to participants....