Elene Khoshtaria starts a legal dispute against SSS about leaked files
By Nika Gamtsemlidze
Monday, September 20
Elene Khoshtaria, the leader of the political party Droa, is going to start a legal battle against the State Security Service, which will go to the European Court of Human Rights.
Elene Khoshtaria says that according to the secret records, in all the documents published so far, the part in which she is mentioned, really happened, which is a confirmation of the authenticity of the records.
Elene Khoshtaria calls on other politicians, activists, and lawyers to unite in this legal battle to work together to create a legal practice against illegal wiretapping and blackmail in private.
She also added that demonstrating the audacity of this scale and the reaction of the Georgian Dream that the recording of diplomats, kindergarten teachers, and principals is normal, requires a response from Georgian society.
In addition to this, Koshtaria also said that she will never in her life talk about the files containing the personal data about people, no matter how ‘winning it could be’.
“I am going to fight against this great evil, and I call on all our friends, the citizens of Georgia, there is so much that we should all start the legal process together, which will eventually reach the European Court of Human Rights. Let's set an important precedent that Georgian citizens in the country do not get used to illegal recordings at any stage and will never get used to it,” said Khoshtaria.
According to the party's lawyer, Giga Lemonjava, the legal dispute against illegal files will have two purposes: the first is to let those working at SSS and collecting illegal recordings about people know that they can't get away with such things. The second one, according to him, is to establish a single, uniform, legal standard about wiretapping and illegal surveillance in Georgia.
Several other people also said that they found their actual conversations in the files, which they say means that the files are actually accurate and real. Many of them called on everyone who found themselves in the recordings to take legal steps against the files.
The files from SSS were leaked last week. It was sent to numerous Georgian media outlets by an anonymous person. The files include conversations and personal life facts that were kept as tools of blackmailing members of the Georgian church.
The Prosecutor’s Office announced that an official investigation has started about the leaked files.
