People Beaten Over Faked Passports

 1. Strange and armed people attacked Roin Khojakadze, a representative of the United Opposition and Zviad Pipia, the head of the election HQ of the United Opposition as they traveled  to various polling stations after they departed  Zugdidi DEC # 67. Opposition party members were beaten and their attackers seized money and documents from them. Prior to this incident, a voter had entered PS # 24 with faked ID of Irakli Khofenia, born in 1988. However, one of the observers discovered the address of the registration was wrong as it was the similar to the address of his child.  Scared and intimidated voters ran out of the PS and left the passport behind. Rostom Zhordania; the observer proceeded to made copies of the ID and then informed his wife, who was observing PS # 26 of the incident. A number of people witnessed the situation and followed Lali Zhordania into the PS.  They then took her out, searched and having not found anything, said if she assisted them to find the missing ID they would pay her 1,000 USD.  A similar deal was offered to Rostom Zhordania too. There is doubt that corresponding institutions were involved in falsifying the IDs. The observers gave the copy of the false ID to Khojakadze and Pipia; they were later beaten.

Journalists of the TV Companies Mze and Rustavi2 were at the station; they were also attacked and beaten in the street; one of them incurred a brain concussion.

2. Asmat Muradashvili, an observer from the Human Rights Center, reported that commission chairperson of the polling Station 100 in the village of Rukhi left the PS and advised the voters who had arrived by mini-bus to come to the station a bit later after the election observers would have already departed the PS.