Tamara Mearakishvili has reported pressure on her parents.

Tamara Mearakishvili recorded a video message in which she reported new pressure measures – this time against her parents. According to her, an ambulance arrived unexpectedly: first, they examined her mother, then took her father straight from the street to the hospital.

As reported by Kavkazsky Knot, in mid-January 2025, activist Tamara Mearakishvili filed a cassation appeal against the Tskhinvali City Court's decision to deport her to Georgia.

Tamara Mearakishvili's video address was published today by the Telegram channel BONV[Ӕ]RNON, which has over 12,000 subscribers. By 9:15 p.m., the post had garnered over 1,500 views.

According to the activist, several days ago, Leningor ambulance crews came to the house where her parents live and said they needed to be examined. Only her mother was home, and, according to Mearakishvili, she didn't resist. The next day, her father was taken straight from the street to the hospital, his blood pressure was measured, and he was given some medication.

"I don't know who gives such orders, but why are you doing this? Why are you pressuring my parents? There is no epidemic in the area, who is this coming from?" she asked in the video.

"I see this as continued pressure on my family, on me. I am appealing to the Minister of Health. The government in which you work as minister kicked me out of my own home. They kicked me out because I told the truth. They kicked me out because I named corrupt officials. Including those in your hospital. All these people are on their own, you haven't touched them and don't plan to touch them. You better take care of this so that the people who have been robbing the hospital budget for years and decades, destroying healthcare in our area, are punished," the activist stated in her appeal.

In conclusion, the activist emphasized that they themselves know the ambulance number and do not need help from the authorities.

The expulsion of Mearakishvili is not only a gross violation of individual rights, but also an alarming signal for the ethnic Georgians living there, according to a report by the Social Justice Center (SJC), Pirveli TV reported today.

"The arrest and expulsion of Tamar Mearakishvili is not only a discriminatory and repressive measure against a specific human rights activist, but also creates a dangerous precedent for ethnic Georgians living in the Tskhinvali region, who are primarily concentrated in the Akhalgori district. Due to restrictions on freedom of movement and difficult socio-economic conditions, the population of Akhalgori is constantly declining, and the region is experiencing a process of depopulation. The decision to expel Tamar Mearakishvili carries a clear political threat to those ethnic Georgians who have retained Georgian citizenship, "and poses a real risk that their legal status will be unstable and they could also face expulsion from the region," the publication stated.

Human rights activists were particularly alarmed by the fact that not only did the Georgian government fail to condemn the expulsion of an ethnic Georgian citizen from the occupied region, but some politicians even accused Tamar Mearakishvili of provocation, thereby effectively justifying her expulsion, the television company reported.