In fact, we are being told that when we get out of prison soon, we will have to leave the country, if we don’t want to get here for a long time. Either we leave, or we will spend 7 to 15 years in prison. This is the message, - Zurab Japaridze, the leader of Girchi – More Freedom, writes in a letter sent from prison.

As Japaridze notes in the letter, he does not intend to leave the country and calls on the public to go to Rustaveli.

“The charge against us may be related to the European Commission's enlargement report. It probably is. However, it has another purpose. In fact, we are being told that when we get out of prison soon, we will have to leave the country, if we don’t want to get here for a long time. Either we leave, or we will spend 7 to 15 years in prison. This is the message.

I don't think it's something criticizing if a person flees a dictatorial regime that threatens to take away his life or part of it, no matter how long that part of their life is, 1 day or 15 years.

We all have one life, and I've never believed that we have any inherent obligation to spend it the way we don't want to. To me, that means you're not free. That means you're not human.

The only thing that annoys me is when a person who fled a dictatorship or the lack of prospects created by a dictatorship:

1. a) teaches those who remain here how to fight the dictatorship.
2. b) claims that he does more there than even an ordinary protester on

I have one life too, and in this life I have roles that are no less important than a "politician"'s, just like any person who doesn't live on an island like Crusoe.

Brother, husband, father, friend, teacher.

I have spent almost half my life doing what interests me the most, studying and teaching everywhere around me - what kind of world of people is there and what rules we should organize it with in order to make it better for each next generation. Hundreds of young people have passed through my hands.

Unlike a simple professor, I live what I teach.

Therefore, despite how it may seem from the side, the truth is that I don’t have to make a choice now, because I have no choice. I made this choice a long time ago. Prison or leaving the country - for me everything is a test of what I believe in.

The great injustice in this story is that neither Nata has a choice, nor do my children, my brother, my uncle, my friends. All the people dear to me will have to continue living in the choice that I once made. If this is so, the one who will have the most difficulty knows best – Nata”, Zurab Japaridze says in the letter.

According to him, he does not intend to go anywhere.

“Of course, I'm not going anywhere. I'll stay in my country, which I'm accused of betraying. I will paint another absurd picture - how a traitor doesn't run away when he has the chance.

Thank you to everyone who supports me, but I really don't need encouragement. I'll encourage a lot of people myself.

Go to Rustaveli.

When you get tired, when you get bored, when depression attacks you, then get up and go to Rustaveli.

Don't look at it as a job, as an obligation. Have fun with it, have fun. Look at the map, see who is fighting you and who can't stop you. How can you not have fun with it?

Look at what they're doing. They have everything - almost absolute power, money, hired muscles, and what have they become? They chase masks. They gave up the ability to speak. They become more ridiculous every day.

Don't be angry about this. Laugh, have fun, be happy. Turn the monster into a clown. This is how the collapse begins,” writes Zurab Japaridze.