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Human Rights Center’s Observers Expect Mass Fabrications in Several Polling Stations

October 1, 2012

Human Rights Center’s observers still remain in polling stations in the regions of Georgia and monitor violations. Organization doubts extra ballot papers will be dropped in ballot boxes and election results will be fabricated in the polling stations where low activity of observers was observed. This threat is particularly evident in the villages inhabited by ethnic Azerbaijan citizens where local senior governmental officials are mobilized in front of precincts and oppress voters by various forms.

Simultaneously, in the villages of Gardabani and Sagarejo districts where ethnic Azerbaijan people live, people with unidentified status are observed in polling stations (possibly they are law enforcement officers) and actively agitate in favor of the ruling party. Those people threatened Human Rights Center’s observer Nino Gvedashvili in PS # 49 in Gardabani DEC # 21 several times and did not allow to write a complaint. HRC called CEC hotline five times throughout the day and notified them about oppression on the observer. Only one hour after the last call CEC members called the chairperson of the polling station and asked to accept the complaint that was completely inadequate respond of the CEC’s side. Human Rights Center demands to annul election results in the PS # 49 in Gardabani DEC # 21 where privacy of voters’ choice was breached and they were under obvious oppression.

At the same time, today on October 1 Human Rights Center sent second interim report on Pre-Election Period Monitoring which presents findings of the August-September monitoring process. The report largely discusses those main trends which definitely impact election results.

Namely, the report discusses the following facts: use of legislative and governmental resources during election process, forms of usage of law enforcement, supervision and regulation resources; interference in the journalists’ professional activities and use of media resources by government; politically motivated oppression where governmental officials directly or indirectly participated; detentions of opposition activists.

Human Rights Center published first interim report on Pre-Election Period Monitoring on September 5 which analyzed legislative changes which particularly impacted on the ongoing pre-election process – they were amendments to the Election Code and Law on Political Union of Citizens which caused large protest of civil society. You can see the interim report on humanrights.ge http://www.humanrights.ge/admin/editor/uploads/pdf/HRIDC%20-%20Election_Interim_Geo%20_2_.pdf .

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