21:00, 9 June 2011

A Georgian oppositionist went on a hunger strike in an isolation ward

A representative of the Conservative Party of Georgia Lasha Chkhartishvili who was detained on June, 5, for an attempt of organizing an action of protest in the center of Tbilisi went on a hunger strike.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" reported that representatives of the Conservative party tried to hold an unauthorized action of protest in the center of the city timed to the premi?re of the film "Five Days in August" in Tbilisi devoted to the war between Georgia and Russia in August, 2008, shot by Hollywood producer Renny Harlin. Lasha Chkhartishvili was among those detained.

All the participants except Chkhartishvili, including Irakly Batiashvili later detained in the building of the court, were fined and Chkhartishvili was sentenced to ten days of custody by the city court.

At the moment Chkhartishvili is in a pretrial detention isolation ward in Gori, "Novosti-Georgia" reports.

Chkhartishvili does not acknowledge himself guilty. Besides, he demands creation of a competent committee which "will study the crimes of the authorities during dispersal of the action of "People's Assembly" at night of May, 26".