- country
- Georgia
- date text
- 27/08/2025
- actor text
- Tbilisi City Court; Prosecutor's Office
- campaign id
- GEO-CAMP-001
- confidence notes
- Month/year August 2025 confirmed. Specific date TBC. | 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."
- date confidence
- exact
- excerpt
- Front Line Defenders Aug 28 2025: Aug 27 2025 — Tbilisi City Court grants freeze on 7 organizations: Civil Society Foundation, ISFED, IDFI, Democracy Defenders, GDI, Sapari, SJC. ISFED Director: "$2,500 gas masks presented as proof of state sabotage." Mid-Aug: 6 CSOs receive ACB FARA inspection letters. Sep 22: 30 CSOs receive ACB inspection requests under Grants Law.
- id
- SIG-GEO-005
- incident id
- GEO-005
- normalized date
- 2025-08-27
- observation
- country
- Georgia
- actor function
- execution
- actor primary
- Tbilisi City Court; Prosecutor's Office
- actor type primary
- Government Official
- campaign id
- GEO-CAMP-001
- campaign phase
- Phase 5: Systemic Assault
- case id
- GEO-005
- channel primary
- Official/Regulatory
- confidence notes
- Month/year August 2025 confirmed. Specific date TBC. | 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."
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative
- date confidence
- exact
- escalation stage
- 5
- event date normalized
- 2025-08-27
- event date raw
- 27/08/2025
- harm track
- Track 1 — Legal/Administrative
- institutional consequence
- 7 orgs frozen; directors criminally summoned
- narrative density
- high
- narrative origin
- hybrid
- primary narrative code
- NF-01
- primary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- secondary narrative code
- NF-03
- secondary narrative label
- Regulatory / AML Framing
- signal id
- SIG-GEO-005
- source text excerpt
- Front Line Defenders Aug 28 2025: Aug 27 2025 — Tbilisi City Court grants freeze on 7 organizations: Civil Society Foundation, ISFED, IDFI, Democracy Defenders, GDI, Sapari, SJC. ISFED Director: "$2,500 gas masks presented as proof of state sabotage." Mid-Aug: 6 CSOs receive ACB FARA inspection letters. Sep 22: 30 CSOs receive ACB inspection requests under Grants Law.
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/prosecutors-office-freezes-bank-accounts-seven-more-human-rights-and-civil-society
- tactic code
- TC-15 (Bank Account Freeze); TC-21 (Criminal Investigation)
- target
- ISFED; IDFI; Sapari; HRH Tbilisi; Shame Movement; 2 others
- target type
- Individual Organization
- trigger to signal lag
- 0-3
- trigger type
- TR-06: Legislative Milestone
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/prosecutors-office-freezes-bank-accounts-seven-more-human-rights-and-civil-society
- target text
- ISFED; IDFI; Sapari; HRH Tbilisi; Shame Movement; 2 others
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