Members of Georgia's ruling party stab two Azerbaijanis - UPDATED

15:25

Representatives of united opposition, who were stabbed in Dmanisi by members of National Movement on May and brought to Tbilisi clinics No 1, signed out of the hospital.

Spokesman for the National Council of Opposition Magda Popiashvili said that Bahruz Namazov's and Seymur Tanaverdiyev's wounds were cleansed and there life is not threatened.

The clash between the opposition representatives and ruling party, according to Popiashvili, occurred in the Nijneye Karabukhari village in the building of the station electoral commission No 44 when commission chairman Qurban Kazimov and agitator of the National movement Sekur Alahyarov beat the opposition activists and then stabbed them.

The opposition representatives claim that they were forced to vote for the candidate of the ruling party Kaha Okriashvili.

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12:50

According to Caucasus-press, drunken members of the ruling party demanded from them to support the candidate of the ruling party Kaha Okriashvili in the head office of the election bloc "United opposition-National Council-the right, which ended in a dispute and stabbing.

The stabbed opposition members were immediately carried to Tbilisi to the head office of the bloc. Later both were transferred to the first clinic of Tbilisi, where they were offered medical aid.

According to one of the bloc leaders David Gamkrelizde, the residents of villages, populated by ethnic minorities, are subjected to impudent pressure and scaring by the authorities.

"They can not accept that in this case ethnic Azerbaijanis do not support the authorities unlike the previous years and therefore commit violence", said Gamkrelidze.

Georgian people's defender Sozar Subari, visiting the stabbed, announced that this is not a accident, as in other cases these people would be punished and the stabbed would not have been brought to Tbilisi at night.

"The fact that criminals who stabbed these people are still free proves that this is a policy and not a spontaneous stabbing", said he.

Secretary general of the ruling party Zurab Melikishvili also visited the stabbed. He noted that authorities will undertake all measures to punish those responsible for it.