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In Gurjaani, IDPs living on Akhtala territory demand a meeting with the Public Defender of Georgia. IDPs are asking the Ombudsman to visit them.

“The ministry of refugees is offering offers us with an alternative place where our living conditions only be worsewill worsen.  We have several severelyheavily ill persons where we live and, if the special force evicts us, we might encounter direheavy consequences. The Public Defender should come and defend our rights” stated– the IDPs stated.

In Gurjaani, 43 IDP families live in the first, and third sleeping floorsblocks of the Akhtala resort. The head of the local MIA regional department, Levan Bickinashvili, warned the families of eviction and gave them five5 working days to vacate. The deadline has passed on June 15th. Goga Utiashvili, the director of the Akhtala resort petitionedaddressed the police, demanding them to evict the IDPs. The Akhtala resort is a state owned enterprise and the police have necessary jurisdictions a permition from the ministry of IDPs, refugees and resettlement to conducton the eviction. The ministry is offering the IDPs them an alternative housing in Lagodekhi and Bakurtsikhe, in the Gurjaani region, but the IDPs are denying the offer, claiming that their living conditions will only be worsen there. They are not going to resist the special force as they have declared to Kakheti Information Centre, but they will put up tents in the yardeard after the eviction and continue to live there. A Nnumber of IDPs state that they will start a hunger strike at the reception of the Gurjaani Municipality Ggovernor.

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