With all the info on the Panorama program, I inadvertently overlooked this article at Yahoo! News. It came out on July 10:
"Youths storm offices of religious freedom group in
ex-Soviet Georgia, beating director
TBILISI, Georgia-A dozen youth stormed the offices of a group advocating
religious freedom in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, beating its director
and other employees, one of the victims said Wednesday.
The unidentified attackers turned over computers and damaged furniture at
the Institute of Freedom, an independent non-governmental group that has
received funding from Western Foundations, employee David Zurabashvili said
on Rustavi-2 television. The beaten employees suffered light injuries.
"There has been a strong campaign against our institute recently. I think that
the authorities must bear responsiblity for what happened. Lawlessness
is reigning in the country," Zurabashvili said.
The Institute of Freedom has publicly criticized lawmaker Guram Sharadze,
who has proposed banning Jehovah's Witnesses from Georgia. On Tuesday,
Sharadze's supporters organized a rally demanding that the institute publicly
apologize to the lawmaker.
The institute also has criticized a defrocked priest who has led book-burning
sessions of Jehovah's Witness materials and is linked to violence against
minority religious groups in Georgia.
Church leaders in Georgia, Russia and other predominantly Orthodox
Christian countries of the former Soviet Union have decried the influx of
foreign religious groups cine the 1991 Soviet collapse. Several non-Orthodox
groups have struggled to be recognized as official relgious denominations in
Georgia.