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Records: 26
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Date: 2014-08-26
District: Zugdidi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-05-29 ...

DISRUPTION OF THE UNM MEETING IN AKHALTSIKHE

Date: 2014-08-26
District: Akhaltsikhe
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-04-07 On April 7, 2014, a meeting of Gigi Ugulava, Goka Gabashvili, Kote Gabashvili, Mikheil Machavariani and other representatives of the UNM was held in Akhaltsikhe, outside the UNM’s office. The meeting lasted 10-15 minutes and was held amid noise. ISFED’s coordinator reported that activists of the Georgian Dream were protesting against the meeting with picket signs. As members of the parliamentary minority were leaving the rally, people started throwing plastic bottles at them...

DISRUPTION OF THE UNM MEETING IN ANAKLIA

Date: 2014-08-26
District: Zugdidi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-04-10 On April 10, candidate for the position of Gamgebeli of Zugdidi Muncipality, Tengiz Gunava was planning to hold a briefing about constructions terminated in Anaklia. Activists of the Georgian Dream and the public movement Defend Georgia attempted to disrupt the meeting. They met UNM’s representatives with brooms and tried to achieve their goal by violent means. According to Tengiz Gunava, disruption of the meeting was premeditated, alleging that the Georgian Dream was mobilized for ...

DISRUPTION OF THE UNITED NATIONAL MOVEMENT MEETING IN TELAVI

Date: 2014-08-26
District: Telavi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-04-10 On April 10, representatives of the UNM Levan Bezhashvili and Giorgi Ghviniashvili were having a meeting in Telavi where activists of the public movement Iverieli and the coalition Georgian Dream also appeared8 urging for the disruption of the pre-election meeting; verbal confrontation between citizens and the UNM representatives ensued. Representatives of the UNM were forced to finish their meeting early; afterwards people started throwing eggs and brooms at them. The following emp...

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Rustavi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Other

2014-05-24 ...

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Rustavi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-05-24 ...

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Rustavi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-05-31 ...

DISRUPTION OF PRE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN RUSTAVI

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Rustavi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-04-24 On April 24, the Georgian Way’s candidate for the office of Mayor, Lekso Kobakhidze and representatives of his party visited a free diner for the socially vulnerable in Rustavi. The visit was covered by Kvemo Kartli TV. One of the representative of the party, Mamuka Chikovani noticed representatives of Rustavi City Hall’s Supervision Office appear right at the beginning of the meeting. Two unidentified individuals demanded that representatives of the party leave the territory, ...

ARREST OF CHIATURA SAKREBULO CHAIRMAN

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Chiatura
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

2014-04-01 On April 1, 2014, officers of the MOF’s investigating office charged Chiatura Sakrebulo Chairman Iason Chumburidze for inadequate fulfillment of reinforcement works against the so-called falling rocks. According to the MOF’s investigating service, “chairperson of Chiatura Sakrebulo Municipality Iason Chumburidze fulfilled his duties inadequately and indifferently by failing to verify credibility and quality of works completed, encouraging perpetration of a criminal action by Ucha Ghvi...

ARREST OF KHELVACHAURI SAKREBULO CHAIRPERSON

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Khelvachauri
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

2014-03-29 On March 29, employees of anti-corruption department arrested Chairperson of Khelvachauri Municipality Sakrebulo Malkhaz Partenadze on charges of accepting a bribe. Later charges were changed to attempted fraud. According to the investigating authorities, Malkhaz Partenadze falsely promised Amiran Adeishvili and Natia Makharashvili to sell them a land plot in Gonio, intending to transfer the land plot into the ownership of these individuals by abusing his official authority and witho...

ARREST OF TRUSTEE OF THE VILLAGE OF KHALA

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Kobuleti
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

2014-03-28 On March 28 at 19:00, Trustee of Khala Village Malkhaz Diasamidze was arrested by the investigating office of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia in his own office. He is a supporter of the UNM and one of the candidates for office of a majirotarian member of Sakrebulo in local self-government elections. Diasamidze has been charged with taking illegal ownership of state subsidies allocated for citrus in 2013. Chairman of Kobuleti Sakrebulo Elguja Bagrationi has stated to media15 that D...

ARREST OF DUSHETI SAKREBULO CHAIRPERSON

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Dusheti
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

2014-02-11 On February 11, 2014, investigating service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia arrested Deputy Chairperson of Dusheti Sakrebulo Zurab Otiashvili on charges of abusing official power and receiving a prohibited gift. The UNM believes that the arrest has to do with his party-related activities, considering that he was a possible candidate in primary election. The investigation has found that while serving as Dusheti Municipality Gamgebeli in 2008-2009, in the name of Dusheti Municipa...

ARREST OF KHONI GAMGEBELI AND HIS DEPUTY

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Khoni
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest, Other intimidation

2014-02-10 On February 10, 2014, prosecution service arrested Khoni Municipality Gamgebeli Zurab Jibukhia and his deputy Besarion Chelidze on charges of abuse of official power; in particular, the case involves illegal cutting of trees in Khoni Municipality in 2010. According to the UNM, Zurab Jibukhaia was supposed to be their candidate in local self-government elections for the position of Gamgebeli. The detention means that he will not be able to participate in the pre-election campaign. St...

PRESSURE AGAINST MEMBERS OF THE UNM IN BATUMI

Date: 2014-08-07
District: Batumi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack

2014-04-10 Members of the organization Anti-Clan, Merab Ghoghoberidzde and Vakhtang Mitiashvili started throwing eggs at Gigi Ugulava and verbally abused him as he appeared at the trial in Batumi Constitutional Court on April 10, 2014. Batumi City Court ordered 3-day administrative detention against Merab Ghoghoberidze for the incident, and fined Vakhtang Mitiashvili with 100 laris for violating public order...

Date: 2014-07-04
District: Saburtalo
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

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Date: 2014-07-03
District: Saburtalo
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest

2014-07-03 ...

Date: 2014-06-22
District: Terdjola
Incident Category: Intimidation, Dismissal from work

2014-06-22 ...

VERBAL AND PHYSCIAL ASSAULT AGAINST MEMBERS OF UNM IN TSAGERI

Date: 2014-06-09
District: Cageri , Tsageri
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-06-09 On June 9, the leaders of the United National Movement Gigi Ugulava and Giga Bokeria held a pre-election meeting with voters near Tsageri Culture House. The members of the Georgian Dream Coalition Lasha Kvirikashvil, a candidate for Tsageri City Council membership, Gogita Akhvlediani, independent candidate in the village named Agvi, and Ramaz Murtskvanidze who works in the local office of the Coalition in Tsageri started throwing eggs at the leaders of the UN and attacking them physic...

ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT THE MEETING OF UNM IN BATUMI

Date: 2014-06-07
District: Batumi , Batumi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign

2014-06-07 On June 7 the leaders of the United National Movement Gigi Ugulava, Giorgi Baramidze, and Giga Bokeria were holding a pre-election meeting in Batumi, near Batumi Drama Theatre. The meeting was joined by a member of a former civil society organization People’s Assembly David Loria, and a former political prisoner Jemal Duadze. The two individuals urged the leaders of the UNM to speak about various facts, which happened during the rule of the UNM. The demands of the participants, direct...

DISMISSAL OF GAMGEBELI IN KVARELI MUNICIPALITY

Date: 2014-06-04
District: Khvareli
Incident Category: Intimidation, Dismissal from work

2014-04-25 On April 25, during a closet meeting of Kvareli Sakrebulo, Gamgebeli Davit Kevkhishvili was dismissed from office. His dismissal was proceeded by a noisy meeting on April 14, in which part of Sakrebulo members confronted Gamgebeli during discussions of 2013 budget implementation. Some members of Sakrebulo criticized opinion of the financial service, while Gamgebeli publicly criticized Sakrebulo for interfering with his work. The meeting grew into an argument and verbal confrontation...