A/56/253 Gldani District Polyclinic No. 31, where the necessary examination and treatment were given. “The Chief Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is conducting an inquiry into the case in order to find out legal ways to resolve it. A court medical examination has been arranged to determine the degree of health damage. Additional information on the decision taken will be sent to you. “Case 3 “On 22 September 2000, the Fourth Police Department of the GldaniNadzaladevi district of Tbilisi was petitioned by inhabitants of Kacharava Street complaining that in their neighbourhood Hare Krishna meetings were being held and that there was constant loud noise from the prayers and music. This invaded their privacy and they demanded that the activity be stopped. “Based on the complaint, the police searched a house located at 16 Kacharava Street owned formerly by the brothers Jimsher and Zaza Gabadashvili. The two brothers, who were in conflict with the head of the Hare Krishna Association, I. Jijavadze, currently lived in their parent’s flat at 7 Nutsubidze Street, Flat 24. During the search of the house at 16 Kacharava Street, Hare Krishna literature translated into Georgian weighing approximately 150 tons was found in the cellar. The literature had been brought into Georgia at various times before 1993. When requested to by the police, the persons in the house, including I. Jijavadze, were unable to produce adequate documentation showing the origin of the literature. Some 2,900 packets of literature were therefore removed. The removal was found legal by decision of the Gladani-Nadyaladevi Court, which ruled that the material had been brought into Georgia illegally without appropriate customs clearance. “On 4 and 24 October 2000, the couple Tomaradze and G. Darchia and a lawyer defending I. Jijavadze appealed to the Gldani Region Procurator on the issue. They demanded that criminal proceedings be brought against the police, who had confiscated the Hare Krishna literature illegally. On the basis of the complaint, the Procurator checked the materials at the police station. “On the basis of the complaint, I. Jijavadze was questioned. He indicated that he was a follower of Vedic culture, that he was internally displaced from Sukhumi (Abkhazia, Georgia) and currently lived in Tbilisi with his wife. He had arrived in Tbilisi on the instructions of his spiritual leaders residing in Sweden and Switzerland, Robert Companiolli and Seta Prabu, and had received instructions from them to head the Veda Cultural Centre in Georgia. “He stated that the Veda Cultural Centre had been registered in Georgia in 1992 in the Gldani-Nadzaladevi district of Tbilisi and that the literature confiscated by the Gldani-Nadzaladevi District Police Department had been sent to Georgia from Moscow in 1990-1993. The books had been kept in the chapel storeroom and had not been used for commercial purposes. The only aim was to disseminate the books among their followers. He appealed for reregistration of the Association to the Gldani District Court, but the Court did not grant his appeal. “I. Jijavadze also stated that the Constitution of Georgia allowed such an association to function without any official registration. As President of the 61