Police Arrest Three-Man Rally

Three activists from the pro-opposition youth group, who were arrested on Monday evening for, as the police said, violation of law on rallies, were released after being fined with GEL 500 each, one of the activists, Dachi Tsaguria, said after the release.

Police arrested Dachi Tsaguri, Jaba Jishkariani and Irakli Kordzaia when the three activists were standing in front of the Parliament, protesting against the government’s policies.

Two of the participants of the three-man rally were holding pictures of Amiran Robakidze and Sandro Girgvliani and the third one was holding a small English-language banner – “Public TV for People”.

Shortly after they arrived outside the Parliament, chief of Tbilisi patrol police, accompanied by several other policemen, approached the activists telling them that they were arrested for violation of law on rallies. Activists obeyed the policemen and followed them without any resistance.

At the moment of arrest police cited law on rallies, which bans holding of demonstrations in a 20-meter radius from the Parliament building.

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