Saakashvili's supporters urge policemen to stop politically motivated detentions

Supporters of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili have held a protest action in front of the building of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). They called for the release of the oppositional politician and demanded from the police to stop political persecution of the opposition.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in the afternoon on December 12, after visiting Mikhail Saakashvili at the Gori military hospital, doctors stated that he was in a consistently poor health condition and failed to receive the proper treatment.

Several dozen Saakashvili's supporters have held a rally near the MIA building in Tbilisi. They demanded to release the former president and also called on policemen to stop politically motivated detentions, the "News-Georgia" reports.

"We want to show the public what happened in the 1990s, when we had traffic cops and militiamen. They are recreating such a system now," one of the protesters has stated.

In the protesters' opinion, the Georgian police are currently in many ways similar to the militia of the early 1990s. One of the protesters even dressed in an old-style militia uniform, for which he was administratively detained for petty hooliganism, the "Ekho Kavkaza"* has reported.

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This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on December 19, 2021 at 04:26 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.