According to Levan Tsutskiridze, leader of Freedom Square, during a meeting between Peter Andreoli, a representative of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, and opposition figures, he asked the high-ranking State Department official to remove or ease restrictions related to visas for Georgian citizens.

After the meeting, Tsutskiridze told journalists that he also drew attention to the issue of political prisoners.

"First of all, I spoke on two specific issues. The first, as you know, is that due to the incompetence of ‘Georgian Dream’ and the crimes committed against their own country and citizens, as well as their incompetence in foreign policy, Georgia is now on the list of countries whose citizens must pay a substantial advance to obtain visas. My first request to the official was that, given the historical relationship between the U.S. and Georgia, and between our peoples, it might be possible to remove or ease this additional burden related to visas for Georgian citizens. This is very important for every Georgian family.

Second, I, of course, spoke about the issue of political prisoners. We are not a country where, simply because we disagree with someone’s opinion, people should be imprisoned. For us, this is a very principled and moral matter. Beyond that, I spoke about how Georgia can develop within its constitutional and democratic framework, and how the country can become not an isolated and backward province, but a developed, strong, and prosperous democratic state."