“If State Security Service (SGG) does not disclose the interrogation reports that the state withheld, Canvas members are prepared to do so,” said Giorgi Meladze, the director of Canvas-Georgia.

Meladze’s remark came after the SSG on Monday stated that at the invitation of USAID, Canvas activists Sinisa Sikman, Jelena Stojsic, and Slobodan Djinovic arrived in Tbilisi “to hold trainings for youth groups to prepare them for the revolutionary scenario planned in October-December of this year in Georgia.”

Meladze explained that nonviolent civil campaigns are Canvas Georgia’s main focus.

“We have known each other for 20 years, we meet periodically. Their visit aimed at delivering lectures on non-violent civil campaigns. This is our core business, what we do, what we write, and what we read. Thanks to the state for informing people about our work as we were not able to reach that many people.”

As Meladze put it, the SSG was trying to “falsify history.” “Real history is open history.”