Religious extremists in Georgia
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Subject: Religious extremists in Georgia
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Religious extremists in Georgia
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Phone: 32 2 3456145 - Fax: 32 2 3437491
"Religious Intolerance and Discrimination"
22 January 2001
Editor-in-chief: Willy Fautr
Website: http://www.hrwf.net
Email: [email protected]
GEORGIA
Religious extremists disrupt press conference where petition was
presented to Office of President Shevardnadze
HRWF (22.01.2001) Email [email protected] - Website http://www.hrwf.net -
On January 22, 2001 renegade priest Vasili Mkalavishvili and 10 of his
supporters burst into the Georgian Ombudsman's office during a press
conference held to formally receive the petition signed in two weeks'
time by 133,162 Georgians. The petition protested the ongoing mob
violence against members and property of religious minorities in
Georgia. The priest and his hooligans seized 12 of 14 volumes of the
petition, each one containing 10,000 signatures. When Tamara Shamil,
from the Caucasian Institute for Peace and Democracy, tried to protect
the petition, she was physically assaulted by the priest's thugs. A
representative of the American embassy who stood watching the events
was quoted as saying "This is just unbelievable !". UK Embassy and the
Orthodox Patriarchy had also sent a representative to the press
conference. The latter commented "This is an act of an abnormal man"
and warned that these extremists could start killing people.
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