Four people were detained for hooliganism at a protest rally near the sakrebulo (city council) in Tbilisi, the Georgian Interior Ministry press service said.
“As a result of the confrontation, four people were detained in a Tbilisi sakrebulo for hooliganism and disobedience to the police”, – the department told reporters.
Activists of non-governmental organizations and opposition began to protest at the city council demanding the resignation of deputy Erekle Kukhianidze, who had previously written a status on the Facebook social network in connection with the Georgian doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili detained by the South Ossetian authorities. Kukhianidze wrote that the doctor Gaprindashvili knew that he would be detained in the territory beyond the control of the Georgian authorities, but still crossed the administrative border. Kukhianidze later apologized for his words. The opposition protesters also tried to put up a tent in the office of Kukhianidze, but they were brought out by the police.
A well-known Georgian doctor was detained by South Ossetian border guards on November 9. The South Ossetian side accuses him of illegally crossing the border. Earlier, the State Security Committee of South Ossetia reported that the detained Gaprindashvili as a medical doctor participated in the events of August 2008. His daughter, Irina Gaprindashvili, denied this information, noting that at that time he was treating patients in Tbilisi, including two Russian pilots. Gaprindashvili was sentenced by a Leningor court to two months in prison. The Georgian Foreign Ministry said earlier that it had connected the international community to the release of the doctor.