“I want to inform you about a crime: I had a meeting at Rustavi No. 12 Penitentiary with the rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe — exactly the same people with whom communication is considered treason against the homeland,” — writes Zurab “Girchi” Japaridze, one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change, on social media, addressing the Prosecutor’s Office:

“I want to inform you about a crime.

Yesterday, on November 12, in the morning hours (I don’t remember the exact time, I got confused), in one of the meeting rooms of Rustavi No. 12 Penitentiary, I had a meeting with the rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Exactly the same people I used to meet in Strasbourg, exactly the same people you call ‘deep state’ agents, and exactly the same people with whom communication is considered treason against the homeland — and for which you plan to put me on trial soon.

I have no idea who let them in. They even had an interpreter — what if I had forgotten my English? What was I supposed to do? Am I Garibashvili or some other Georgian Dream official who bites his tongue and keeps silent instead of speaking openly?

I told them everything — cell by cell — about my current neighbors: where the army looter is sitting, where the thief of regional highway funds is, and where the one who stole money meant for building kindergartens and schools is located.

I want to know — where is Mamuka while the ‘deep state’ is rampaging in Rustavi? Where is the Ministry of Internal Affairs? And finally, where are Nana Kakabadze and Sharmanashvili?

P.S. Maybe you should quickly retrieve the internal prison camera recordings before Bachiashvili gets them deleted,” — writes Japaridze.