{"id":"GEO-005","notes":"DATE CONFIDENCE: month/year August 2025 confirmed. Specific date within August TBC from primary source. This is Track 1 harm at Stage 5 severity. The combination of judicial freeze (court-ordered) and criminal summons (prosecutorial) represents dual-track institutional pressure — similar to Serbian Feb 25 2025 raids but using financial mechanism rather than physical search. ELECTION MONITORING TARGET: ISFED is Georgia's primary independent election monitoring organization — paralysing it through financial freeze directly undermines future election integrity assessment. Cross-ref GEO-003 (Grants Law — administrative freeze). | DATE UPDATE: Date confirmed exact: August 27, 2025. Tbilisi City Court grants Prosecutor's motion to freeze accounts of seven organizations: Civil Society Foundation (formerly OSGF), ISFED, IDFI, Democracy Defenders, Georgian Democracy Initiative, Sapari, Social Justice Center. Sources: Front Line Defenders August 28 2025; Civil.ge August 27 2025; FIDH/OMCT August 29 2025; Caucasus Watch August 27 2025. ADDITIONAL CONTEXT: mid-August 2025 — six CSOs receive ACB inspection letters for FARA violations (failure to register as foreign agents). September 22 2025 — up to 30 CSOs receive ACB inspection requests under Amended Law on Grants (IBAHRI October 2025). Timing: linked to anticipated EU suspension of Georgian visa-free travel (Eurasianet/Jamestown). ISFED Director Natroshvili: \"We bought gas masks for employees — $2,500 worth of protective gear presented as proof of state-level sabotage.\"","country":"Georgia","sources":[{"url":null,"citation":"Front Line Defenders August 28 2025 (https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/prosecutors-office-freezes-bank-accounts-seven-more-human-rights-and-civil-society); Civil.ge August 27 2025 (https://civil.ge/archives/698002); FIDH/OMCT August 29 2025; Caucasus Watch August 27 2025"}],"summary":"Tbilisi City Court ruling freezes bank accounts of seven independent civil society organizations (August 2025). Simultaneously, directors of ISFED, IDFI, and Sapari summoned for questioning under \"foreign influence\" investigations. Prosecutor's Office executes freezes. Organizations include: ISFED (election monitoring), IDFI (FOI/transparency), Sapari (human rights), Human Rights House Tbilisi, Shame Movement. Advocates for Human Rights: \"Criminal summons issued to directors — accused of sabotage.\" ANALYTICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Track 1 (financial freeze) + Track 2 (personal criminal summons) deployed simultaneously against key election monitoring organizations. Timing: 2024 parliamentary elections disputed — OSCE/ODIHR noted \"chilling effect\" of foreign influence law on election monitoring. Freeze mechanism: court-ordered asset freeze — distinct from ACB administrative freeze introduced April 2025 (which operates without court order). This is judicial instrumentalization for financial restriction.","tactics":[{"code":"TC-34","role":"primary","label":"Bank Account Freeze / Judicial Asset Seizure","needs_review":false},{"code":"TC-20","role":"secondary","label":"Security Apparatus Enforcement","needs_review":false}],"version":1,"channels":["Official/Regulatory"],"entities":[{"id":775,"name":"Tbilisi City Court (freeze order); Prosecutor's Office of Georgia (execution and summons); Anti-Corruption Bureau (investigation trigger)","role":"actor","entity_type":"Government Official"},{"id":776,"name":"Civil Society Foundation (formerly Open Society Foundation Georgia); ISFED; IDFI; Democracy Defenders; Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI); Sapari; Social Justice Center","role":"target","entity_type":"Individual Organization"}],"date_text":"27/08/2025","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","escalation":6,"harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","narratives":[{"code":"NF-01","role":"primary","label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","needs_review":false},{"code":"NF-03","role":"secondary","label":"Financial Corruption / AML Framing","needs_review":false}],"report_ids":[],"signal_ids":["SIG-GEO-005"],"updated_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","occurred_on":"2025-08-27","campaign_ids":["GEO-CAMP-001"],"enabler_type":"","response_ids":[],"trigger_type":"TR-06: Legislative Milestone","campaign_phase":"Phase 5: Systemic Assault","civic_response":"Amnesty International/Front Line Defenders document; ISFED, IDFI, Sapari issue joint statements; Social Justice Center publishes joint assessment; international condemnation","date_precision":"day","enabler_status":"","campaigns_served":[],"consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","institutional_consequence":"Seven organizations' accounts frozen; organizational directors face criminal investigation; election monitoring capacity disrupted; chilling effect on remaining civil society"}