Activist Nino Datashvili, who was arrested on charges of assaulting a bailiff, will be visited today by her human rights defender Tamar Gabodze in Rustavi Penitentiary No. 5.

As the lawyer noted in an interview with InterpressNews, Nino Datashvili will likely be transferred to the appropriate institution for psychiatric examination based on the court’s ruling, either today or tomorrow.

“I am going to meet with Nino Datashvili now, I will be meeting with her in a few minutes. I do not know whether she will be transferred today or not, because the court set 30 days for execution, and today is the fifth day. We assume that she will be transferred for examination today or tomorrow. We have appealed this decision to the Court of Appeal, however, we do not know what decision the Court of Appeal has made,” Gabodze said.

According to her, she will discuss the health condition and defense strategy at the meeting with Datashvili.

Two days ago Nino Datashvili’s human rights defenders disseminated information that the prosecutor’s office “completely groundlessly requested a court psychiatric examination of Datashvili, which the court granted.”

In this regard, the Prosecutor's Office explained that the defense itself presented documents reflecting Nino Datashvili's health condition, which indicated psycho-emotional lability as a concomitant disease, and therefore it was considered appropriate to order an examination.

In response to the Prosecutor's Office's statement, Nino Datashvili's lawyer noted that Datashvili has psycho-emotional lability, which is a symptom and not a diagnosis.