Salome Zurabishvili: Activist Nika Narsia was jailed straight from the airport for “fines” over blocking roads - authoritarian regimes always betray themselves in fear of free citizens

Activist Nika Narsia was jailed straight from the airport—for “fines” over blocking roads, the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, writes on X.

“Activist Nika Narsia was jailed straight from the airport—for “fines” over blocking roads. His only crime is refusing to bow down. Authoritarian regimes always betray themselves in fear of free citizens. TerrorInGeorgia”, she writes.

Law enforcement officers detained civil activist Nika Narsia today. Police detained him at Tbilisi International Airport as he was entering the country.

Tbilisi City Court Judge Lela Tsagareishvili found Nika Narsia an administrative violator and sentenced him to 15 days of administrative detention yesterday. Nika Narsia did not attend the pronouncement of the decision.

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