Based on the Tbilisi Court of Appeals’ 2020 8 June judgment, Olivia Antony, who has a Russian citizenship, has been prohibited to take (move) her child out of Georgia. The organization “Young Barristers” spreads information about that.

According to the “Young Barristers”, based on the Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the court reviews the case of sending the illegally detained and moved child back to the Republic of Cyprus. The parents – Mother, is a citizen of the Russian federation, and Father – Citizen of the Czech Republic.

On June 2, the public has been informed about the fact, that the joint actions of two state institutions – LEPL State Fund for Protection and Assistance of (Statutory) Victims of Human Trafficking and the fourth police department of the Vake-Saburtalo Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia’s Tbilisi Police Department, which led to transfer and seizure of the child, against her will, from one legal parent from another legal parent.

The Tbilisi Court of Appeals fully shared the legal justification of Archil Kaikatsishvili, who is the head of the “Young Barristers”, a representative of the EU and Czech Republic citizen, who is a father of minor, which concerns the objective threat of abducting the child from Georgia, both legal and illegal ways, by Olivia Antony, who is a mother of the child, with the motives for revenge against her husband.

In the situation, when a law enforcement officer of the Vake-Saburtalo Police Department, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on June 1, 2020 issued a restraining order against the legal representative of the child – father, without considering the best interests of the child. In that way, the social service agency for 30 days separated the minor from her father, against her will, and gave her to Olivia Antony. Since the fact, that the minor is with Olivia Antony, all the agencies have blocked communication with the family. Moreover, the temporary judgment of 22 October, 2019, isn’t fulfilled, which in particular, the 1.3 Article of it says, that the parent, with whom the baby is, is obliged to have telephone communication with another parent. The father, in order to determine the child’s condition, for the last days, tries to have contact with Olivia Antony, who doesn’t answer and formally says that she is outside the city in the friend’s residence place.

The social service agency’s representatives don’t respond to the telephone communication, and Olivia Antony’s representative, Lola Kurkumuli, based on the additional reference of the party, for the baby to have communication with grandma, according to the Civil Code of Georgia, Article 1203, rejects that motion, due to the fact that Olivia Antony isn’t planning to show the baby to her grandma.

The court decision about determining the residence place of the baby is valid until the last decision and can’t be appealed. Archil Kaikatsishvili states out, that the court’s decision is a response on the joint spec-operation of the Social Service Agency and the Police Department, as well as, on the demagoguery, which is spread by the party of the process and deliberately discredits the father and his family.