2012-09-24
On September 24, activists of Georgian Dream George Khakhoshvili and Vladimer Sujoshvili were beaten by unknown persons in Gori. They were attacked by persons in masks and beaten with iron sticks....
2012-09-23
On September 23, activists of Georgian Dream Zviad Sabanadze, Giorgi Jankanidze and Petre Tavliashvili were arrested in village Shindisi. The reason for their arrest was hooliganism and verbal abuse towards Irma Papunashvili. Zviad Sabanadze was sentenced fine in amount of 100 GEL and Giorgi Jankanidze and Petre Tavliashvili 30 days of imprisonment....
2012-09-20
According to ISFED LTO in Gori district, unknown persons have beaten supporter of Georgian Dream Merab Bolashvili and have raided his market in village Ditsi. They were moving with car in village. Amiran Mdzinarashvili has witnessed the incident. According to Bolashvili they demanded him to stop supporting Georgian Dream....
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Date: 2012-09-03
District: Gori , Gori
Incident Category: Other
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2012-08-08
On August 8, 2012, camera crew of Maestro TV was preparing a report about people displaced following the Russia-Georgia war in Khurvaleti Settlement in Gori. Some locals were aggressive towards journalist Tamta Gazashvili and did not allow her to record on camera. Some of them told her that only the foremen had the “right” to talk to them.
One of the foremen told the journalist that they were the ones controlling the situation in the settlement. Eventually, a group of citizens s...
2012-07-12
On July 12, 2012, representatives of the Georgian Dream – Kakha Kaladze, Sozar Subari and its supporters and members visited an IDP settlement in Verkhvebi where they were met by IDPs, settlement foremen (employees of the municipality of Kurta and Erdevi) – Bezo Kakhniashvili, Viktor Datashvili, Vano Midodashvili together with other supporters, calling representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream leave the territory.
During the meeting one of the citizens addressed Kakha Kal...
2012-08-02
Mr. Kakhaber Gogiashvili was detained for participation in Karaleti incident. According to decision of Gori city court he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative imprisonment. He was placed in insulator for temporary imprisonment of Sagarejo district, where he was an object of psychological influence and coercion from employees of the insulator. On July 25, 2012 GYLA applied to chief prosecutor of Georgia with request to start investigation of mentioned fact. GYLA also applied ...
2012-07-13
On June 26, 2012, representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream were holding a meeting together with Bidzina Ivanishvili and Irakli Alasania in the village of Mereti, which was attended by supporters and opponents of the coalition. The meeting was followed by a clash that resulted in seven representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream sustaining bodily injuries. Two of them checked in at Gori Hospital with grave bodily injuries. Following the incident, on June 27, 2012, Gori D...
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2012-07-13
On June 10, 2012, office of the coalition Georgian Dream was robbed. According to its employees, various documents and two working computers were taken. According to the head of office, Tamaz Shioshvili, the office was robbed at 6:00 am....
2012-07-13
According to the registrar of the coalition Georgian Dream’s door-to-door voter-checking in the IDP settlement of Verkhvebi, Mtvarisa Naraidze, she was followed by a white Niva with license plates GTR-565 during voter list checking. As a result, none of the respondents were willing to talk to her....
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2012-07-13
According to registrars of the coalition Georgian Dream, Tariel Midelashvili and Maia Midelashvili, who were verifying voters’ list in the IDP settlement in Khurvaleti, at the entrance of the settlement where there is a police checkpoint, they were stopped and their badges taken. According to the registrars, they were able to register seven families peacefully but after that they were approached by five young men, telling them to stop verifying; otherwise, they said they would bea...
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2012-07-13
According to one of the coalition Georgian Dream’s registrars, Mzia Mamulashvili, after she had verified three cottages on June 26, 2012, she was approached by the foremen of IDP settlement in Skra, Kakha Kakhniashvili, and told to leave the settlement as the door-to-door checking had already been done there. He said that if they refused to leave, they would face problems. The registrars found 6 women outside who told them to leave the settlement....
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2012-07-13
During the door-to-door checking of voters’ list, a campaign initiated by the coalition Georgian Dream, members of the coalition verifying the list in IDP settlements in Karaleti faced problems. According to one of the registrars, Khatuna Khatashvili, after leaving one of the households, registrars that had verified eight families, found 7-8 women and one man outside, who advised them to leave as they would not allow them to continue their work....
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2012-07-18
Levan Maisuradze (Trustee of the settlement). Brothers, Gogita and Giga Gochashvili (representatives of Eredvi and Qurta municipalities). Gia Chulukhadze(foreman of the refugee settlement). Vano Midodashvili, Beso Kakhnisvili(representatives of local authority). All of the above mentioned people were directly involved in physical confrontation....
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2012-07-14
Five persons were arrested in relation to the incident in Karaleti, including representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream Tsotne Shengelia, Vova Janezashvili and Kakhaber Gogiashvili, Levan Maisuradze – the settlement foreman and Gigi Gochashvili – friend of Liakhvi majoritarian MP Badri Basishvili.
Gori District Court sentenced them to 15 years of administrative imprisonment.Further, in relation to Karaleti incident, one of the activists of the Georgian Dream, Zaza Aduashvi...
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2012-07-11
In the village of Dici, Gori region, the head of the local administration, Zurab Bolashvili, tried to disrupt a meeting of the Georgian Dream’s representatives with the locals....
2012-07-18
Ilia Mindiashvili (Trustee), his two sisters and cousin’s wife gathered with supporters to meet Georgian dream activists, including Kakha Kaladze and Nineli Chankvetadze. As a result, they interrupted the meeting and demanded opposition to leave the territory....
2012-07-18
Irma Papunashvili (a senior specialist of the local governance body), her son and friends shouted, interrupted the meeting and demanded the opposition leave the village....
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2012-07-18
Iza Kokauri (employee of the City Council, chief specialist of the local governance body), Tako Kokauri (his son, a teacher and a member of the Election Commission) – They were shouting, and they demanded the opposition leave the village and prevented the meeting from being held....
2012-06-30
Tengiz Gogoladze the employee of Gori Municipality was following Georgian Dream’s door-to-door voter-checking Irakli Machitidze in every family, asked him to give the lists in order to check if everything was correct. Then he tried to take the list away and demanded him to give rest of the papers in order to copy them and said that he would not say to anyone. Then he suggested Irakli not to get in trouble....
2012-06-27
Five policeman armed with light machine guns came in his house and took him out at the river side, starting beating him. Menaced to imprison him if he would tell anyone about it. He has been warned previously not to be involved with Georgian Dream. In the following day police started to patrol several times near his house, when approaching the house they slowed down, one of them stopped and started glancing at her mother for a minute and then left....