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Observers of the Human Rights Center Left the Sagarejo Election District Because of Oppression on Them

May 30, 2010
At 7:15 pm the Human Rights Center decided to call their observers back from Sagarejo election district # 11. The executive director of the Human Rights Center Ucha Nanuashvili reported about it; he personally observed the election process in the district and witnessed numerous violations at various polling stations. According to him, in the evening, the situation between the observers of the Human Rights Center and the commission members at the polling stations seriously worsened.

“Our observers were not allowed to file complaints. They did not register the already written complaints. We spent two hours to register one complaint and finally the commission accepted it. We filed about 15 complaints to the various polling stations in Sagarejo election district; however we had observed more violations. We intend to appeal to the district election commission and request them to register other complaints too,” said Ucha Nanuashvili.

According to him, the commission members threatened the observers -“You will be punished soon.” Thus, the organization decided not to increase tension and observers returned to Tbilisi. The violations were video and photo recorded; the Human Rights Center will publish those materials soon.

In the Sagarejo election district # 11 the observers of the Human Rights Center observed the elections in the villages populated by ethnic minorities. The Human Rights Center provided the Public Defender of Georgia Giorgi Tughushi about the observed violations and requested him to react on them.

According to the Center, there were not Xerox apparatus in almost every polling station and observers complained about it. Only in the evening, they managed to bring several Xerox apparatus. In many polling stations so-called election carousels were observed – voters were delivered to the polling stations by mini-buses; those people entered the polling stations without registration and dropped ballot papers directly into the ballot boxes.

Aleko Tskitishvili 

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