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Georgian NGO condemns attack on LGBTQ+ activists in Tbilisi, calls on Interior Ministry to persecute perpetrators
By Veronika Malinboym
Monday, May 17
The Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI) strongly condemned an attack on the LGBTQ+ activists and demanded Ministry of Interior to launch an immediate investigation and persecute those respnonsible for the incident. The attack took place on May 15, in Dedaena park in Tbilisi, where the LGBTQ activists installed a cabin with an insctiption Welcome to the closet. It has been reported that Guram Palavandishvili, leader of the violent homophobic group, entered the cabin and damaged it from the inside, and verbally assaulted the activists. The police arrived at the place of the incident 10 minutes later, and removed Palavandishvili from the location, however, did not arrest him. Several Palavandishvilis supporters carrying homophobic banners remained at the location, however, were denied entry into the activists installation by
Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case sent to ECHR
The lawyers of Natalia Ilichova and Iveli Melashvili, who have been accused of withholding materials from a border agreement with Azerbaijan that ended ‘against the interests of the state’, claim ‘the case is politicised and their imprisonment is unreasonable’. Photo: IPN Agenda.ge, 20 Apr 2021 - 23:24, Tbilisi,Georgia
Two suspects in the Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case - Iveri Melasvhili and Natalia Ilichova - have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI) announced earlier today that the applicants complain for the violations of several articles of the European Convention of Human Rights.