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RESTRICTION OF THE RIGHT OF OBSERVER

Date: 2021-10-07
Period: 2021 Local Self-Government Elections - Election day
District: Zugdidi , Zugdidi
Incident Category: Other important E-day violations, Illegal restriction of the rights of those persons, who are authorized to be present at the polling station

2021-10-02 At the polling station #90 of the electoral district #67 (Zugdidi), ballot casting procedure was running without major violations. However, there were instances of verbal abuse, confrontation and pressure against the ISFED observer, Elene Narmania, and later against ISFED observers of the mobile group, David Logua and Data Akubardia. The ones were physically assaulted too. Observer Elene Narmania was illegally expelled from the polling station and restricted her observation right. Prior to the incident, her observation right has been constantly restricted throughout the day. The election commission was not acting autonomously, but upon the instruction of Giorgi Jikia, chairperson of the organization "Societal Unity - Georgia First”. He was instructing the commission chairperson to expel certain people from the polling station. ISFED observers also noticed the ballot casting without inking, and repeated ballot casting instances. Observer of the Young Georgian Lawyers Association (GYLA) was also expelled from the same polling station;

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