2012-05-21
On March 15, 2012, Tsisana Joiashvili, a teacher at the Public School N1 in the village of Apeni was dismissed from work. The school principal, Tamar Tskipurishvili, cited the appointment of a new manager at school as grounds for the dismissal. Tsisana Joishvili contends that she was dismissed due to the political activities of her son, Zurab Gamezardashvili, who is a member of the initiative group of Georgian Dream’s office in Lagodekhi....
2012-05-21
In early April, a chairperson of the Office of the Republican Party in Gurjaani district, Zvuad Kviralashvili, was dismissed from the position of a deputy director of the Cleaning Services Ltd. after he facilitated the foundation of the Georgian Dream in Gurjaani. His labor agreement was to expire in May but the contract was terminated in early April for no reason....
2012-05-21
An activist of the coalition Georgian Dream, Zurab Tergiashvili, was subject to alleged political pressure in early April. Mr. Tergiashvili had been working as an ambulance driver for seven years. After his contract expired – on April 1, 2011 – it was never renewed. Zurab Tergiashvili himself alleges that he was dismissed from work due to his political affiliation....
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2012-05-13
The representatives of the United Georgian Movement, Gigi Ugulava and Giorgi Meladze, have invited school teachers to a closed meeting in the restaurant Lazuri where they were greeted with a tableful of meals. With regard to such practice of the ruling party, TI-Georgia has applied to the State Audit Service to make public the data on the funds spent by the Unite National Movement during the recent months....
2012-07-18
Rustavi City Council and the UNM member, Tamaz Gvelukashvili sent sheep and wine to several city districts as a gift for Easter. A few days before Easter information was collected about the number of residents in apartment buildings in different districts and on Easter they brought sheep and 20 liters of wine to those districts. In some districts the ones who gave away presents were representatives of Rustavi City Board and Kvemo Kartli Governor’s Administration, although it was m...
2012-07-31
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2012-05-01
President Saakashvili presented a plan for reconstructing Rustavi Park. Local authorities arranged a meeting where Saakashvili was welcomed mostly by public servants, teachers and school children....
2012-07-17
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2012-04-03
School principles and kindergarten managers are assigned to list which political party supporters are their employees’ family members and relatives. Such instructions came from heads of educational resource centers and nursery school unions. Special lists are composed by the representatives of local government territorial bodies as well. They are instructed to register those socially vulnerable families who are suspected of supporting the opposition....
2012-03-27
Kakha Mikaia was charged with minor hooliganism and was sentenced ten days of administrative detention. Mikaia is an active political figure in Zugdidi and such facts occurs to him rather often. After one of the hearings of Sergo Chachibaia case Mikaia was holding a march along with other activists saying in megaphone: “No to Akhalaia’s Court” when police officers arrested and charged him with petty hooliganism....
2012-07-18
On March 27, 2012 Revaz Sakevarishvili resigned from the position of a Forbes Georgia editor in chief. In its March edition U.S. Forbes dedicated a prominent article to an oligarch and the leader of the Georgian opposition, Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is 153th in a list of billionaires, drafted by the magazine. According to the former editor, Gagik Yeghiazaryan-the founder of Media Partners which is as company entitled to publish Forbes, demanded him to replace the article with the q...
2012-07-30
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2012-03-12
Local authorities arranged a meeting in Telavi where the president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili was welcomed mostly by public servants, teachers and school children....
2012-07-13
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2012-03-10
Video reporters Tamar Kajilashvili and Tamar Khidasheli of the Shida Kartli Information Center were seeking to report the case of schoolteacher being laid off, for political reasons. The reporters entered the school and started video interviews with pupils and teachers, asking them whether or not they were ordered to withdraw an appeal that asked the school to rehire the teacher in question. The school’s guard (mandaturi) tried to expel the reporter from the building....
2012-03-10
In March 2012, a video reporter of the Shida Kartli Information Center, Tamar Khidasheli, entered a public school in Upper Nikozi in March, filming while approaching the schools director in the staircase. The video shows the reporter trying to hand the director a freedom of information request to release copies of protocols of teacher council meetings, the certification of a teacher who was allegedly fired for political reasons and an evaluation of the teacher by the Ministry of E...
2012-03-05
The president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili visited a new medical center in Akhmeta. Local authorities arranged a meeting where Saakashvili was welcomed mostly by public servants, teachers, school children and kindergarten employees....