DISRUPTION OF THE UNITED NATIONAL MOVEMENT MEETING IN TELAVI
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 employees of Telavi Gamgeoba were at the meeting - specialist of the supervision department Alika Agurashvili, head of Telavi Municipality Gamgeoba’s office for youth and sports Levan Khvistiani and other municipal public servants, expressing their protest against the UNM activists. According to Gamgebeli of the municipality Givi Metreveli, it was not the intension of public servants to disrupt the meeting.9 A special statement was released by Telavi Municipality Gamgeoba about the incident on April 11, distancing themselves away from all kinds of violence perpetrated against political activists and urging all public servants against attending similar meetings in the future.10 Leader of Iverieli Levan Kochloshvili and activist of the Georgian Dream, an employee of the sports and youth office Archil Bochorishvili were detained in relation to the incident


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