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not attended the Georgian Dream‟s assembly. Kvareli district police has not launched
criminal case on the fact. 42
22. Posters seized from the Georgian Dream‟s activists in Kvemo Magaro On September 6,
agitation posters were seized from the activists of the Georgian Dream Nino Gugashvili and
Giorgi Mchedlishvili in Kvemo Magaro village, Signagi district when they were distributing
them among people; they were verbally and physically assaulted. Member of the Signagi
municipal board from the Kvemo Magaro village Giorgi Babakishvili participated in the
harassment. “We were four and were distributing posters; suddenly two cars approached us,
several people got out of them and asked who we were. We said we did not force anybody to
take our posters and we were just informing people that on September 9 Bidzina Ivanishvili
was holding assembly in Telavi. They seized our posters; they slapped one of our boys; they
struck posters into my head and cursed. They warned us against coming to the same place
next time and left the place,” Nino Gugashvili said and added strangers drove away by Giorgi
Babakishvili‟s car. The latter denied the accusations of the Georgian Dream‟s activists. “I have
not beaten anybody. I do not know who they were; I was not there,” Babakishvili said. A
witness of the incident Galina Arabuli confirmed the activists‟ statement: “I was filling in
water in the street. Children were walking with posters. They stopped cars and seized posters
from them. I asked them why they were seizing posters but he did not answer. They put
posters in the car-booth and drove away,” Arabuli said. 43
23. Georgian Dream‟s information posters torn down in Gurjaani district On September 9,
coalition Georgian Dream had scheduled assembly in Telavi. On September 8 Coalition
activists placed announcement posters in the region and invited people to the assembly. In
the same evening, almost every poster was torn down in the Gurjaani district villages.
Residents of Chandari village told ICK that National Movement‟s activists had done it.
42 http://www.youtube.com/watchv=eCEMWA3NuJA&feature=player_embedded
43 http://www.youtube.com/watchv=Nr7Zys3b83Q&feature=player_embedded
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