Mearakishvili spoke about the security forces' visit to her parents.

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Tamara Mearakishvili contacted the First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Sergei Kiriyenko, and reported that security forces visited her parents in Leningor, confiscated their phones, and conducted a search.

As reported by Caucasian Knot, in mid-January 2025, activist Tamara Mearakishvili filed a cassation appeal against the Tskhinvali City Court's decision to deport her to Georgia. On January 26, she reported pressure on her parents.

On January 27, Tamara Mearakishvili recorded a video message addressed to Sergei Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. In it, she stated that on January 27, law enforcement officers came to her parents' home in Leningor and confiscated their phones.

"Recently, a criminal case was opened against me and I was deported from the republic. The lawlessness against me and my family continues. Today (January 27), unknown people came to my parents' home in Leningor, confiscated their phones, and conducted a search. This was without initiating a criminal case. "I don't know why they conducted this search," she stated in her appeal.

Mearakishvili also recalled that several days ago someone had visited her parents; they were taken to the hospital by ambulance "for examination." She demanded that no one interfere in her parents' lives.

Mearakishvili believes that South Ossetian President Alan Gagloev is behind all of this and accused him of pressuring her family. "He began to act against me because I exposed corruption schemes involving his officials in our district. All my statements are based on various audits by the Accounts Chambers of both South Ossetia and Russia," she stated, asking Kiriyenko to influence Alan Gagloev to stop the persecution of her relatives.

Mearakishvili told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she was unable to contact her parents. "I don't know what's wrong with them now, how they are. I was told, on condition of anonymity, that the house was also searched. I can't find out more, because people are afraid to go and find out, to tell me. "Of course, everyone is very scared after what they did and are doing to me," she said.