2012-09-20
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2012-08-20
Dweller of the village of Vardisubani, supporter of the coalition Georgian Dream, Tsitsino Ivanishvili does not specify a concrete individual in an interview with The ISFED’s LTO; however, he alleges that after she started collecting signatures for a petition to grant Georgian citizenship to Bidzina Ivanishvili, municipal authorities started looking into her and her family. Tsitsino Ivanishvili was summoned by the Chamber of Control for questioning. According to her, she has been...
2012-08-19
Several teachers of Chokhatauri School were not going to attend meeting organized by the United National Movement on August 19, 2012. Having learned about their intention, school principal forced them to attend the meeting by threatening with payroll deduction.
Identity of the school teachers and the principal is known to THE ISFED; however, it refrains from publicizing the information for safety concerns....
2012-08-12
On August 12, 2012, at around 16:00, activist of the coalition Georgian Dream Hasmik Iegyan together with three other supporters of the coalition was distributing booklets of the coalition Georgian Dream. Suddenly they were approached by Aghasa Irtsyan together with two other individuals accompanying him and identified himself as a police officer. He demanded the activists stop acting in support of the coalition; otherwise, he said he would arrest them .
Iritsyan tore some book...
2012-08-08
On August 2012, father of Levan Taboridze, supporter of the coalition Georgian Dream who currently resides in Belgium, was visited by Malkhaz Barnovi, chief of Shida Kartli regional police, and threatened that his family would lose a house if his son does not come to his senses.
Levan Taboridze believes the incident had to do with his active participation in protest rallies held by immigrants – e.g. on June 28, 2012, outside the Renaissance Brussels Hotel where President Mikheil...
2012-08-03
On August 3, 2012, deputy chairperson of Sakrebulo Kote Janelidze suggested to a Tsnori-dweller, Nikoloz Kikilashvili to abandon the coalition Georgian Dream, which the latter refused to. According to Kikilashvili, after two days Kote Janelidze had him sit in his car and took him to a forest park where there Soso Tsitsishvili, head of the regional security service, was waiting. Janelidze and Tsitsishvili were demanding that Kikilashvili leave the country and the coalition Georgian...
2012-08-02
On August 2, 2012, at around 17:00, the coordinator of the coalition Georgian Dream in the village of Orulu, Emzar Tsaava was visited by an officer of Zugdidi patrol police Irakli Tsaava. According to Emzar Tsaava, Irakli Tsaava locked the door and demanded he explain the reason why he was a member of the opposition, and to stop cooperating with the coalition Georgian Dream.
Irakli Tsaava started threatening Emzar Tsaava with a weapon. Later Emzar Tsaava managed to escape from th...
2012-07-04
Guria News newspaper reported that trustee of the village of Bakhvi, Gocha Sharashidze , physically and verbally abused and threatened dweller of the same village Nurki Bajelidze. Nukri Bajelidze informed ISFED’s LTO that before holding of assembly of the coalition Georgian Dream in Ozurgeti, he was contacted by Mr. Gocha Sharashidze by phone and told to leave the coalition.
According to Bajelidze on July 4, when he was in the center of the village Bakhvi at 06:30pm Gocha Sharas...
2012-07-14
On July 14, 2012, supporter of the coalition Georgian Dream Temur Kuprashvili received a phone call from Jemal Oboladze, a trustee of Tsutskhvati Community and addressed him with abusive words. Later Kuprashvili and Oboladze met and their meeting ended with abusive words from the trustee.
According to members of the coalition Georgian Dream, the incident has to do with the fact that Temur Kuprashvili was facilitating meeting of representatives of the coalition with youth in Tsut...
2012-06-25
On June 25, 2012, at Omalo District N24, police officer Zurab Pareulidze forced registrars of the coalition Georgian Dream – Marina Gaurgashvili and Nana Tsikhesashvili out of a house and warned his fellow villagers that everyone who cooperated with them would lose their welfare assistance....
2012-07-06
According to Otar Kvirikashvili, representative of the coalition Georgian Dream, in the process of verification of voters’ list through the door-to-door campaign, registrars are pressured. On July 6, 2012, during verification of voters’ list at 1 Zhaluri District in Akhmeta, registrars Mariam Khosiashvili and Teona Umtsrsashvili were verbally abused by Temur Ertgulashvili, deputy head of Akhmeta Greenery Ltd and interfered with their work....
2012-07-04
In early July 2012, Melania Beriashvili, an activist of the party Free Georgia was collecting voter signatures in Telavi for the purpose of electoral registration.
On July 4, 2012, Melania Beriashvili, who lives at Alazani Avenue with her two children, was visited by a district officer of Telavi Police, Badur Revazishvili, asking her why she was collecting the signatures, how much the party paid for her work and what was her relation with the party.
Melania Beriashvili informe...
2012-08-13
I, Manuchar Kuchuloria, have been serving in Coast Guard Department in Poti for eight years. Last months I have been under pressure for political reasons. My father, Vakhtang Kuchuloria, is Chairman of National Forum Tsalenjikha office and Leader of local Georgian Dream organization. About 2 months ago Malkhaz Ghurtskaia - Head of Constitutional Security Department (CSD) in Tsalenjikha, demanded my father to join UNM. After my refusal Beka Babukhardia - Head of Poti Coast Guard I...
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2012-08-21
On July 17, 2012, Shalva Kornauli, a trustee of the village of Arkhiloskalo, prohibited activists of the party Free Georgia – Zhuzhuna Kenkadze and Natia Natadze from working to register supporters of the party in the village of Arkiloskalo.
The party activists informed ISFED’s LTO that the village trustee prohibited them from working and moving around the territory of the village in various districts of the village....
2012-07-13
A member of the coalition Georgian Dream, Gurgen Sartania informed ISFED’s LTO that Juli Kaldani, UNM’s activist in the village of Odishi, as well as employees of Odishi Kindergarten (Khatuna Antia and Marina Darsania) were threatening any citizens of Odishi planning to attend the meeting organized by the coalition Georgian dream. They informed the Odishi citizens that those who ignored the order would be noted down on a list that would be handed to the police....
2012-07-13
Representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream’s office in Zugdidi informed ISFED’s LTOs that one of the members of the political union Free Democrats, Paata Tordia receives systematic phone calls threatening to detain him and members of his family....
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
On June 25, 2012, trustee of a territorial unit of the village Leliani, Nino Kapanadze, demanded that the following interviewers of the Georgian Dream’s door-to-door campaign for checking of voters’ list terminate their activities: Khatuna Koberidze, Lia Jajnidze, Ana Chumburidze and Khatuna Janashvili. Otherwise, she threatened to impose a fine in the amount of GEL 1000. After that, all four interviewers refused to continue checking voters’ list....
2012-07-13
On June 1, 2012, the head of cleaning service company Service 2007 LLC, Ilia Taliashvili, head of the center for preschool and without school education, Murad Ozashvili, and director of an art school, Akaki Merabishvili, informed employees that if they or their relatives attended the assembly held by the coalition Georgian Dream on June 2, 2012, they would be dismissed from work. Multiple sources have consequently confirmed this information with ISFED....