Georgia: Law enforcers were mobilized to protect public order in the area of the Parliament building, parallel to the rally started at 22:00 on Rustaveli Avenue on Sunday, May 12, 2024.
It is worth noting that the protesters were placed on the streets around the Parliament, including Z. Zhvania, Inc. Chitadze’s and b, at the entrances of the legislative body on the streets of Chichinadze.
As the organizers and participants of the rally publicly announced that they would not allow MPs to attend and participate in Parliament’s Legal Committee meeting scheduled for May 13 at 09:00, the Interior Ministry employees have repeatedly urged them to free the entrances of the legislative body so that MPs and apparatus would be allowed to be allowed to give MPs and Apparatus employees a seat of Parliament, a means of entering the building and exercising parliamentary powers.
Despite the numerous calls made by the police to the organizers and participants of the rally and the statement issued by the Ministry of Interior that they would obey the legal request of representatives of the Ministry of Interior, they would not enjoy the limits permitted by the law of freedom of assembly and expression, some of the protesters did not comply with the police law Ieri demand, violated public order, opposed law enforcers And he was abused.
According to articles 166 and 173 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, the police have arrested 20 persons.
Three of the detainees are citizens of foreign countries, in particular, a citizen of the Russian Federation, G. B., a citizen of the United States, born in 1995, P. H., And another citizen of the same country, who refused to give his identity and demanded to contact the Embassy of the United States in Georgia.
Confederation embassies of the United States and Switzerland are already familiar with the arrest of these persons.
