MIA reports about 305 detainees at protest action in Tbilisi

The court arrested four participants of the protest rally in front of the Georgian parliament for 12 days, and other several dozen people are waiting for court hearings. A reporter of a local TV channel was also detained while filming the demonstration.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Council of Europe (CE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called on the Georgian authorities to investigate the clashes in which Beslan Kmuzov, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, and other journalists were injured.

The police detained 305 people for participating in the protest rally in central Tbilisi, the "Sputnik-Georgia" reports today with reference to a statement released by the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). All detainees are accused under Article "Organization of group violence, leadership or participation in it".

Niko Mukhigulashvili, a journalist from the "First Channel" of Georgia, was also detained near the Philharmonic Hall building. "The police demanded from him to stop taking pictures of what was happening. Niko said that (he) was a journalist and showed his ID, but policemen ... detained (him)," said a camera man from the "First Channel", who accompanied the journalist.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court has already sentenced four detainees to 12 days of administrative detention for participating in the rally in Rustaveli Avenue. Several dozen people are waiting for court hearings, the Georgian "Rustavi-2" TV Company reports today (as translated from Georgian by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent).

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 21, 2019 at 05:32 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.