The Justice Party, which is led by exiled ex-security chief of Georgia Igor Giorgadze, is holding congress in Tbilisi on October 3 and demands that the government immediately solve social problems and change its western oriented foreign policy.
The Justice Party accused the authorities of attempting to thwart the congress after dozens of party activists failed to arrive in Tbilisi, as their bus was attacked and damaged by unknown men in the western Georgian town of Zestaponi. Another incident was reported in Gori, wherein the patrol police stopped a minivan full of Justice Party activists and prevented them from heading towards Tbilisi under the pretext that the driver did not have necessary certificates for the car.
Igor Giorgadze, who heads the party, is wanted in Georgia for masterminding a terrorist act against Georgia’s ex-President Eduard Shevardnadze in 1995. He fled the country in 1995 and is now reportedly residing in Russia.
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