POLITICAL ARREST OF GEORGIAN DREAM ACTIVISTS AFTER INCIDENT IN MERETI
Date: 2012-07-13
Period: 2012 Parliamentary elections - Pre-election period
District: Gori , Mereti
Incident Category: Intimidation, Political arrest, Physical attack
2012-07-18 GYLA confirms the fact and adds that GYLA lawyers were defending interest of Aleksandre Kikolashvili and David Bzishvili before the Court.
2012-07-13 On June 26, 2012, representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream were holding a meeting together with Bidzina Ivanishvili and Irakli Alasania in the village of Mereti, which was attended by supporters and opponents of the coalition. The meeting was followed by a clash that resulted in seven representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream sustaining bodily injuries. Two of them checked in at Gori Hospital with grave bodily injuries. Following the incident, on June 27, 2012, Gori District Court sentenced four individuals to a ten-day administrative imprisonment.


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