US EditionPoet Zviad Ratiani Detained, MIA Says for Assaulting Police Officer - Civil Georgia
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Poet Zviad Ratiani, who was arrested during a protest rally near the parliament on June 23, was sentenced to imprisonment as a preventive measure by the court. The decision was made by Judge Arsen Kalatozishvili. The prosecutor stated at the hearing that if Zviad Ratiani was not sentenced to pretrial detention, there was a risk that he would commit a new crime or destroy evidence. Zviad Ratiani responded to the prosecutor’s justification for the…
The Georgian capital has been protesting for 209 days. The situation in the country is tense. A report from Tbilisi.
Poet Zviad Ratiani Detained, MIA Says for Assaulting Police Officer - Civil Georgia
Poet Zviad Ratiani was detained during the June 23 nighttime protest near Parliament in Tbilisi. The Interior Ministry told Civil.ge that he assaulted a police officer – a criminal offense punishable by four to seven years in prison. A video footage of the arrest shows officers escorting Ratiani into a police van. In another footage, when a protester asks the reason for his arrest, one officer responds that Ratiani “approached an officer and hi…
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