26 May 2011, 20:00
The "Georgian Party": Levan Gachechiladze is safe and sound
Supporters of Levan Gachechiladze, leader of the "Georgian Party", whose location was unknown after yesterday's dispersal of the unauthorized action in Tbilisi by riot squad announced that he was safe and sound and was in a safe place together with his son at the moment.
According to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondents' the earlier report from the ground, at night of May, 26, the term of the declared action of the "People's Assembly" was over but its supporters continued the meeting in front of the Georgian Parliament demanding discharge of President Mikhail Saakashvili. Then the riot squad of Georgian Ministry of Interior Affairs started dispersal of the participants of the meeting with the use of water-cannons, gas and rubber bullets.
Levan Gachechiladze's brother Georgi Gachechiladze known as singer Utsnobi was severely beaten up and is now in hospital, "Georgia Online" reports.
The location of the leader of "People's Assembly" Irakly Batiashvili and Badri Bitsadze, husband of ex-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Nurjanadze, is still unknown. They disappeared after the dispersal of the meeting in Rustaveli avenue and are out of contact, "GHN" reports.
It should be reminded that the motorcade of the leaders of opposition when hastily leaving Svobodi (Freedom) square knocked down two people. Policeman Vladimir Maskhurashvili and ex-policeman, a fifty-four-year-old Nodar Tskhadadze perished. According to the Ministry of Interior Affairs, 37 people are in hospitals at the moment, eight policemen among them.
