As part of an ongoing investigation led by the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, the bank accounts of several non-governmental organizations have been frozen.

The Tbilisi City Court satisfied the Prosecutor’s Office’s motion over the NGOs’ participation in sabotage, aiding and mobilizing funds for organizing hostile activities controlled by foreign countries, activities against the Constitutional order and national security interests.

The investigation determined that protest rallies at the parliament in 2024 turned violent, the calls of opposition parties’ leaders and heads of NGOs transformed into conflict with police forces, police officers sustained injuries from pyrotechnics, fueling substances and Molotov Cocktails, while various infrastructure was destroyed.

The investigation revealed that protest participants were equipped with special gas masks, helmets, face masks, visors, protective glasses, batons, pepper sprays and other means during their confrontation with the police.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, equipping protesters was financed by certain NGOs, namely, Civil Society Foundation, International Society for Fair Elections And Democracy (ISFED), Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI), Democracy Guards, Georgian Democratic Initiative, Sapari, and Social Justice Center.

The prosecutor’s Office said heads of these NGOs openly called on society for disobedience and resistance, paid fines of law violators and provided legal assistance, all this aimed to “weaken law enforcement agencies and abuse their normal functioning.”

“Since activities of the mentioned NGOs went beyond their set operational goals and their finances were used in actions against the law, their bank accounts were frozen, limiting their access to monetary resources,” the Prosecutor’s Office said, adding it would regularly update society on the progress and outcome of the investigation.