Interests of employees dismissed from Ministry of Culture to be defended Center for Social Justice, ISFED and Young Lawyers' Association

The interests of the employees dismissed from the Ministry of Culture will be defended in court by the Center for Social Justice, Fair Elections (ISFED) and Young Lawyers' Association.As ISFED Chairman Nino Dolidze stated at a joint press conference, criticism should not be a reason for the dismissal of the employees. Accordingly, as Dolidze explains, since ISFED is working on issues of dismissal on political grounds, they will be actively involved in the case.

"Violation of labor rights because people express a different or critical opinion, or because they simply do not agree with the policy of the Minister of Culture is unacceptable for ISFED” she said.

"Our organization is generally working for political release, we are also joining our partner organizations to protect the rights of the released people in the Ministry of Culture," Dolidze said.At the same time, Nino Dolidze notes that "Tea Tsulukiani constantly uses the dismissal of employees on political grounds.""In general, we see in our country that different opinion is completely unacceptable, critical opinion is unacceptable, and the ruling party, both at the party level and at the level of state institutions, generally dismisses people who have different views. We have seen similar repressive dismissals from the Ministry of Culture previously as well Ministry of Justice, so this is something constantly applied by Tea Tsulukiani," Dolidze said.