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Ombudsman Applied to the Prosecutor’s Office regarding the Eviction of Editorial Offices from the Journalists’ House

August 21, 2007

Tbilisi.21.08.07.Medianews. Public Defender reacted on the eviction of several editorial offices from the Journalists’ House in Tbilisi.

According to Public Defender’s Office, on August 20 Lia Toklikishvili, editor of the newspaper “Akhali 7 Dge” (New Seven Days), informed the Public Defender’s Office that Police Execution Department was illegally evicting their editorial office from the building and urged for help.

Based on the information, representatives of the Public Defender’s Office arrived at the place to find out the situation. They found out that several editorial offices had leased the space in the building; however, the administration of the Georgian Journalists Creative Union considers lease contracts illegal (the space is registered on the union). The contracts were signed by powerless person. 

Court executor was on the place together with execution police who produced execution warrant where co-chairmen of the Georgian Journalists Creative Union, Hamlet Gegia and Giorgi Zhorzholiani, are mentioned as creditors. Certain private person, Marina Basilashvili is mentioned as debtor.

Representatives of the Public Defender’s Office state that estate should have been withdrawn from illegal possession of Marina Basilashvili according to court decision. Executive warrant does not mention any other people or organizations. Consequently, according to the Georgian Law on Execution, Article 25 “execution can be carried out when concrete names of people, in favor of or against whom the execution must be implemented, are introduced in the execution warrant and court shall issue the warrant to the creditor.”

Members of the Public Defender’s Office pointed out to the court executor that the execution was carried out under the violation of law. Thus the process should have been ceased until it was found out. Giga Giorgadze, the head of the Monitoring and Investigation Department of the Public Defender’s Office, got in touch with S. Elisabedashvili, the chairman of the Executive Department, and explained the situation over the phone. Despite that the process was not dropped.

Since execution police violated the law and abused its power, representatives of the Public Defender informed the Tbilisi Prosecutor’s Office regarding the crime.

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