If these organizations claim to respect the Strasbourg Court or the Constitutional Court and therefore appeal to them, they should obey their decisions. But we see that these organizations are lawbreakers, they do not respect the rule of law, democracy, or law and order, so the main conclusion we must draw is that we are dealing with lawbreakers who are encouraged to violate the law by foreign funding, - said the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili regarding those non-governmental organizations that do not register in the Transparency Register, and at the same time responded to the information that the European Court of Human Rights has communicated a complaint regarding the seizure of bank accounts of five Georgian civil organizations, which implies the start of a review of the case on its merits.

According to Papuashvili, they have the right to apply to the court, but then they must also obey their decision.

"They have the right to apply to the court. You know that several organizations have applied to the Constitutional Court, they have also applied to Strasbourg. The problem is that when you go through the legal process, you have to obey the court's procedures, which these organizations do not do. In particular, they applied to the Constitutional Court, they requested the suspension of the law until a decision is made, the Constitutional Court refused, they applied to the Strasbourg Court, the Strasbourg Court did not suspend the law either, so if they claim to respect the Strasbourg Court or the Constitutional Court, that is why they are applying, they must obey their decisions. Neither Strasbourg nor the Constitutional Court of Georgia suspended the law during the review period, which means that they must comply with the law. But we see that these organizations are lawbreakers, they do not respect the rule of law, neither democracy nor law and order, so the main conclusion we must draw is that we are dealing with lawbreakers who are incited to violate the law by foreign funding. We know that these organizations violate the law by not registering in the “Transparency Register” and are incited by their donors, and they do not stop the money because they are violating the law, but on the contrary, they add money, thereby inciting the violation of the law in Georgia, and this, of course, is an outrageous fact on the part of the donors,” Papuashvili said.

For information, the European Court of Human Rights has communicated a complaint regarding the seizure of the bank accounts of five Georgian civil society organizations - the “Center for Social Justice”, the “Civil Society Foundation”, the “International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy”, the “Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI)” and “Sapari”.

According to NGOs, the European Court of Justice has granted the case the status of a case with significant impact, meaning that the court preliminarily assesses that the case may have a significant impact on court practice, national legislation and broader human rights and public issues.