2013-02-28 19 employees of Gamgeoba in Dediplistskaro Municipality have been dismissed, including department heads and specialists, as well as department heads and specialists of Sakrebulo. Further, 13 trustees have resigned. Head of the educational resource center in Dedoplistskaro resigned on December 3, after submitting a letter of resignation for personal reasons. Acting head has been appointed. Three additional freelancers were dismissed in February, while 9 employees of pre-school and outside-of-school educational center were dismissed, including director, assistant teacher, cleaning crew, driver, watchman and two specialists. All of them were dismissed on the basis of letters of resignation submitted willingly, while new employees were hired based on party affiliation or family ties.

2013-02-28 ISFED’s coordinator met with a former employee of the educational center who talked about how she was forced into writing a resignation letter. On February 7 she submitted a letter requesting a dismissal on grounds of reorganization. He was contacted by Deputy Gamgebeli in a week and asked to change the text and indicate “family reasons” instead. She submitted another letter but refused to indicate any grounds at all for resignation, as she was no longer willing to resign.