"Father Hemorrhoids" Videos
In the autumn of 2009 there were street demonstrations and other signs of public anger after it was discovered that Tea Tutberidze, a former activist in the Kmara protest group at the time of the Rose Revolution and now a leading figure in the libertarian Liberty Institute, had been distributing videos that insulted Patriarch Ilia II. Tutberidze had not made the videos — they were claimed by an unknown "Father Hemorrhoids" (მამა ბუასილი, mama buasili) — but she had promoted them via her Facebook page. The Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested two people over the videos but later admitted there was no crime. Tutberidze remained defiant and later accused the church of co-operation with the KGB under Soviet rule.
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