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Human Rights Center’s Statement on Groundless Dismissal of Employees from Self-Governmental Bodies and Patrol Police

November 20, 2012

Human Rights Center is concerned with the information about dismissal of employees from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and local self-governmental bodies.

When political coalition Georgian Dream won the parliamentary elections, its leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, occupying the position of Prime-Minister, stated that only high-ranking officials – minister and their deputies – will be fired as a result of personnel changes in the executive bodies of government because those people were decision-makers during previous government and were responsible for many illegal decisions. As for lower circles of the executive authority, Bidzina Ivanishvili promised that people will be fired from jobs if signs of concrete crimes are detected in their past activities.

Despite this statement, Human Rights Center receives information that local self-governmental bodies and patrol police department of the MIA started mass dismissal of people employed at lower layers. According to patrol police officers, they are compelled to write reports on resignation without clarifying reasons of their dismissal. On their side, police officers obey the orders of senior officials and with the fear of farther escalation of situation they refrain from informing the society about this fact. On that ground, patrol police officers, who never participated in the dispersal of protest demonstrations or other illegal activities and have never been rebuked before, were sacked from job.

Human Rights Center appeals to Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and other members of the government, responsible to make relevant decisions, and request to prevent politically motivated persecution of people in the country, to refrain from nepotism during personnel changes in governmental institutions and to ensure protection of labor rights of public servants.  

Human Rights Center also appeals to the Minister of Interior Irakli Garibashvili to personally study resignation reports of patrol police officers and to find out real motivations of their dismissal. At the same time, please eradicate all alleged examples of nepotism in the process of power transfer.

Human Rights Center

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