The Human Rights Center: “What Happened In Samegrelo and Kakheti Regions Was Not Elections”
June 1, 2010
The executive director of the Human Rights Center Ucha Nanuashvili reported that observers of their organization monitored the elections in the villages of ethnic Azeri people in Kakheti and Samegrelo regions. “What happened in these regions were not elections at all.” Today, the head of the organization provided the journalists with the results of their monitoring and presented the video-materials of violations. More precisely, the Center alleges that in the Azeri villages of Kakheti region and in Samegrelo region law enforcement officers in uniforms patrolled at the precincts without any legal grounds. Besides that, Ucha Nanuashvili reported that strange people were observed at the PS. They freely moved around the polling station and contacted the commission members. “Violations were observed in the voting and counting processes; there were technical problems regarding the marking apparatus. There were cases when underage people took part in the elections instead of other voters; they visited the PS with the IDs of other people,” said the head of the center. He drew particular attention to the violations in the Azeri villages where commission members ordered voters to mark number 5. The Human Rights Center requests the Central Election Commission to react on these violations properly.
News Agency “Pirveli”
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