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2.7.2025 A10-0110/14
Amendment 14
Urmas Paet
on behalf of the Renew Group
Report A10-0110/2025
Rasa Juknevičienė
2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia
(2025/2024(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
I. whereas the illegitimate Georgian parliament has established the Temporary Parliamentary Investigative Commission on the Activities of the Regime and Political Figures of 2003-2012, which was the period when President Mikheil Saakashvili was at the helm and paving the way for Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic ambitions; whereas this commission is a tool for the further persecution of political opponents, especially leaders of opposition movements; whereas on 22 May 2025, Zurab ‘Girchi’ Japaridze, the leader of the Girchi – More Freedom party and one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change, was arrested for refusing to appear before this politically motivated commission created and controlled by Georgian Dream, whose long-term ambition is to eradicate political opposition in Georgia; whereas on 29 May 2025, Nika Melia, another leader of the Coalition for Change, was arrested one day before he was due to appear in court for refusing to appear before the Temporary Parliamentary Investigative Commission;
I. whereas the illegitimate Georgian parliament has established the Temporary Parliamentary Investigative Commission on the Activities of the Regime and Political Figures of 2003-2012, which was the period when President Mikheil Saakashvili was at the helm and paving the way for Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic ambitions; whereas this commission is a tool for the further persecution of political opponents, especially leaders of opposition movements; whereas since the establishment of the so-called parliamentary commission, the political situation in Georgia has further gravely deteriorated due to the arbitrary arrests, judicial persecution and sentencing of prominent opposition political leaders, including Zurab Japaridze, Mamuka Khazaradze, Badri Japaridze, Giorgi Vashadze, Nika Gvaramia and Nika Melia, on politically motivated charges;
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2.7.2025 A10-0110/15
Amendment 15
Urmas Paet
on behalf of the Renew Group
Report A10-0110/2025
Rasa Juknevičienė
2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia
(2025/2024(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Motion for a resolution
Amendment
10. Condemns the unlawful prosecution of political opponents by the investigative committee of the de facto Georgian parliament under the leadership of the Georgian Dream party, which disproportionately targets the actions of the government that ended its mandate more than twelve years ago; highlights the political nature of the ‘investigation’, noting that the Georgian Dream party has been in power since 2012 but launched the investigative committee in parallel with its attempts to ban genuine opposition parties; notes with concern the statements by the chair of the investigative committee, Tea Tsulukiani, spreading Russian narratives; strongly condemns the arrest of Zurab ‘Girchi’ Japaridze and Nika Melia, and the threats to arrest other politicians, and considers these individuals to be political prisoners;
10. Condemns the unlawful prosecution of political opponents by the investigative committee of the de facto Georgian parliament under the leadership of the Georgian Dream party, which disproportionately targets the actions of the government that ended its mandate more than twelve years ago; highlights the political nature of the ‘investigation’, noting that the Georgian Dream party has been in power since 2012 but launched the investigative committee in parallel with its attempts to ban genuine opposition parties; notes with concern the statements by the chair of the investigative committee, Tea Tsulukiani, spreading Russian narratives; condemns in the strongest possible terms the arrests and sentencing of Zurab ‘Girchi’ Japaridze, Mamuka Khazaradze, Badri Japaridze, Giorgi Vashadze, Nika Melia, Nika Gvaramia and other opposition politicians on politically motivated charges, and considers these individuals to be political prisoners;
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