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1991 and 1993. Following her first pregnancy, she became a housewife and left her job
as a piano teacher in a music school in Tbilisi. In 1993, her mo ther moved in to live
with X’s family and help her in running the household and looking after the children.
2.2 X claims that her husband was often dissatisfied with her housework and
became irritated when his instructions were not followed. Conflicts occ urred because
of insignificant household issues, resulting in violent incidents. On a number of
occasions, her husband physically attacked their son, T. In general, her husband
would react violently when the children argued while playing. He screamed at th em,
shook them with force and locked them in the toilet. X once had to clean wounds to
the fingers of Y and T. after their father had crushed them in doors to punish them for
misbehaviour. Those two children suffered the most violence. On other occasions, the
father beat the children with various items that X then sought to remove. X ended up
being assaulted by her husband whenever she intervened to protect the children.
Violence suffered by X
2.3 X claims that she began suffering physical violence at t he hands of her
husband in 1996. A number of complaints alleging spousal battery were made to the
police, to no avail. On 23 December 2001, following another dispute, her husband
assaulted her, causing injuries to her face and head. She received medical ca re. 2 On
28 December, the Isani-Samgori District Prosecutor’s Office declined to open a
criminal investigation into the incident, given that X had withdrawn her complaint
because she was facing a moral dilemma in that, while her husband was violent, he
was also the father of their children who had to be raised and helped.
2.4 On 3 July 2004, X reported to the police that her husband had attacked her
because she had complained to the District Prosecutor’s Office one month earlier.
The police required the husband only to undertake, in writing, not to use furth er
violence against his family. 3
2.5 On 15 July 2004, the husband insulted and beat X after she asked him to give
her some money. A medical examination qualified her injuries as light bodily harm.
On 17 July, the police requested the husband to sign a written undertaking not to use
force against X. On 24 July, the District Prosecutor’s Office informed her that no
criminal case would be opened. 4
2.6 X claims that, following her complaint to the police of 16 June 2004, her
husband became increasingly violent and, on 7 December, she lodged a new
complaint. The police failed to intervene effectively, with the husband only requested
to pledge in writing that in future he would not use violence to solve family problems.
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X explains, without giving further details, that a medical examination concluded that she had “a
soft tissue tumour on the right hand and a subcutaneous haematoma”. Her injuries were classified
as light bodily harm.
The husband had left the family home in June 2004 and applied for a divorce.
X adds that, according to a police report dated 30 June 2004, her son, Z., explained to the police
that his parents were fighting constantly, that his father was more often the one insulting his
mother and that the situation had been going on for years. He confirmed that his father had
beaten his mother two years previously and that his father also beat his bro thers.
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