I have been arrested many times, but I have never had a confrontation with a police officer after being arrested. Today I had one - Giorgi Chokuri, the deputy head of the Isani-Samgori police department, kicked me while I was sitting handcuffed, - Nika Melia, one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change, stated after leaving the police station.

An opposition politician, who was arrested at a rally yesterday and then released, states that they can make the relevant footage public.

In addition, according to Melia, the police were particularly aggressive yesterday.

"What the public saw today was not a confrontation between the police and the public. The absolute majority of people there were simply dressed in police uniforms, no one is surprised by this, but today they were particularly aggressive. It is understandable! Everything is understandable in this country, for everyone. This is a situation when you will no longer be allowed at home, they will break into your home - neither at the university, nor in the theater, nor in the hospital, nowhere.

Either you accept the rules of the game, which contradict the interests of the state, or you fight. Society has chosen to fight, a righteous fight. Victory through this fight.

I have been in political processes since 2013 and I have not seen such aggressive people. I have been detained many times, but I have never had, for example, physical contact or physical confrontation with a police officer in a police building after being detained, handcuffed. I had it today. I was detained in the building of the Isani - Samgori division, in the so-called glass building, handcuffed and I was sitting with the deputy head of the main division, someone named Giorgi Chokuri, I recognized this person by his face, because he is an active Bidzinist at rallies - I had an argument with this person. I was sitting handcuffed, they may show footage. Who will give us this video recording? But if they contradict what I say, they may publish the footage, showing Giorgi Chokuri, the deputy head of the Isani-Samgori police department, kicking a handcuffed person sitting on a chair," Melia stated.