Old Methods of the Governmental Attempts for the Establishment of Democracy

The new government does not turn down the “talent” of Temur Mgebrishvili and through violating the human rights it puts into practice his “achievements” for the establishment of Bolshevik democracy.

The hunger-strike of the people suffering after the earthquake and from the cooperative house-building, that continued for three-days in front of the municipality building, was dispersed by force of the Interior Ministry’s special team on 1 July. The protesters (suffering from the cooperative house-building) demanded from the government to include 4 million GEL in the city budget – the half amount of needed money in order to ensure the suffering families. This money was reduced to 375 thousand GEL and it was even sequestrated at all. The demonstrators demanded to meet the president Saakashvili as the Mayor of the city appeared to be unable to response and to give any promise.

When dispersing the action one of the protesters Gia Bostoganashvili was beaten and taken to the hospital; even women were not exceptions and the special team of police beat them with clubs.

Human Rights Information and Documentation Center (HRIDC) condemns the mentioned incident and states that after the new government has come into power the facts of about the dispersal of a peaceful demonstration by force has had a common and frequent nature.  This is the violation and rejection of fundamental human rights. We consider that the governmental actions like that that are monitored frequently in the post-revolutionary Georgia, causes the establishment of public terror and an  atmosphere of fear in the society that will reanimate the authoritarian regime in the country.

Human Rights Information and Documentation Center (HRIDC) claims for the punishment of Temur Mgebrishvili as well as of the person who gave the order.