Adelkhanov: Tbilisi will be quiet only till evening

Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, is quiet after yesterday's clash with the police; the opposition has announced a time-out till the evening, as Emil Adelkhanov, deputy chair of the board of the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to his story, the detained oppositionists, whose release was categorically demanded by the opposition, today were released; one of them was heavily beaten.

"Yesterday, a car was destroying tents near the Parliament. An old woman was occasionally knocked down. She was shown on TV; she was fainted. That is, someone in the car drove away from the street and started ramming tents at full speed. But for some reason until now nobody has reported the license numbers of this car," the observer has noted.

He also said that yesterday the Ombudsman tried to calm down crowd at the building of the police and "together with others asked to free the arrested guys; and today in the morning they were set free," Mr Adelkhanov said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

We remind you that on May 6 activists of the opposition demanded from the authorities to liberate three detained participants of oppositional demonstrations, threatening otherwise to take measures to free them. The detainees were Vachnadze, Revazishvili and Oniani, members of the "Youth Headquarters of April 9", detained because of beating Nika Avaliani, a journalist of the "Public Broadcaster". A criminal case was opened against them under the article of "Hooliganism".

Today after release, these oppositionists told about the pressure they experienced at police stations. According to Revaz Revazishvili, the detainees were brought into police stations one by one and beaten there by about a dozen agents.

According to Melor Vachnadze, he was not detained, it was a kidnapping. "Nobody ever presented any documents. We were taken away in an unknown direction, then, at the police, we were exposed to pressure. Later, information arrived that people were looking for us, and I was secretly transported to Vazha Pshavela, to station 7, where they tried interrogating me with application of force. They failed to get evidences. I refused to be interrogated."