“The public today has questions about violence committed by law enforcement, unlawful detentions, use of false witnesses, and politically motivated persecution. Against the backdrop of hundreds of beaten and tortured people, the detention of only five police officers - after a two-year delay - is not justice, but encouragement of violence,” said Giga Parulava, a member of the “For Georgia” faction, during his speech in Parliament addressed to Prosecutor General Giorgi Gvarakidze.

According to him, the Prosecutor’s Office has become an executor of selective justice in the hands of the ruling party.

Parulava stated that instead of punishing real perpetrators of violence, the Prosecutor’s Office has turned into a repressive machine used as a political instrument by Georgian Dream, spending its resources on politically motivated prosecutions.

“Mr. Prosecutor General, beyond the statistics and self-promotion presented in your report, the objective reality clearly shows that Georgia is facing a deep institutional crisis in the justice system. Unfortunately, the Prosecutor’s Office has become an instrument of selective justice in the hands of the ruling party.

In recent years we have seen numerous severe cases of systemic violence, attacks on citizens and journalists during peaceful protests, inhumane treatment of detainees, and torture - documented both by the Public Defender and international reports, including the Moscow Mechanism report. Today society has questions about police violence, unlawful detentions, use of false witnesses, and politically motivated persecution. However, your response has not been systemic - we have not seen those who issued orders, organizers of violence, or those who protected crimes being held accountable. Against the backdrop of hundreds of beaten and tortured people, the detention of only five police officers after two years is not justice, but encouragement of violence. And an example of that encouragement was the brutal group beating of a citizen by police in Gori.

Another separate issue is the provocative revolutionary scenario of October 4, which, according to him, was planned and carried out by Georgian Dream and a bribed, harmful opposition - something even Mdinaradze publicly admitted. The public still has no answers about the role of the police and pre-planned provocations in that process.

Instead of punishing real perpetrators, the Prosecutor’s Office has become a repressive machine in the hands of Georgian Dream, used as a political instrument for politically motivated prosecutions.

A clear example is the criminal prosecution against Giorgi Gakharia. The real basis of this political persecution, he said, is a public statement by Bidzina Ivanishvili, who allegedly said that all documents for prosecuting Gakharia and his team were already prepared at the court level and that they would receive severe punishment.

Gakharia was physically attacked twice, the attackers are identified, yet no investigation has been launched and no one has been held accountable. This, he said, proves biased justice and that the Prosecutor General is an instrument of political persecution.

He added that Gvarakidze is the first Prosecutor General in modern Georgian history who is prosecuting a former Interior Minister and Prime Minister for actions related to protecting Georgian territory in Chorchana and stopping illegal borderization, calling it a process aligned with the rhetoric of the occupied Tskhinvali regime.

He further accused the prosecution of acting on politically motivated grounds in the 20 June case, questioning evidence and pointing to Strasbourg Court findings that, according to him, confirmed Gakharia did not give the order to use rubber bullets.

He challenged the Prosecutor General to present any evidence proving that Gakharia organized serious bodily harm, and questioned why certain political figures were not interrogated in the case.

Finally, Parulava said the Chorchana case and the prosecution of political opponents is a test of whether the Prosecutor’s Office serves national interests or narrow political interests, calling it a serious historical responsibility that cannot be erased by any report or propaganda.