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The founder of the organization “Civic Idea” and former Minister of Defense, Tina Khidasheli, stated that the extension of the parliamentary investigative commission's mandate was done for the purpose of "harmful activities" in the international arena. She made this statement on the “360 Degrees” program on Palitra News.

The Georgian Dream government is aggressively moving toward power consolidation — we support advancing the bipartisan “MEGOBARI Act” as soon as the Senate schedule allows. This is stated in a joint statement by U.S. Helsinki Commission Chair Senator Roger Wicker (Republican Party) and one of the leading members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (Democratic Party).

"Solidarity with violence incites further violence," wrote Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on social media.

Poet Zviad Ratiani has been placed in pre-trial detention as a preventive measure in connection with an assault on a police officer.

The arrests of opposition leaders and the verdicts against them are dismantling Georgia’s democracy, wrote Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Maria Stenergard, on her official X page.

Levan Khabeishvili, one of the leaders of "Unity – National Movement," was fined 4,000 lari for insulting a state political official of Georgia.

A 5,000-lari fine was imposed on Elene Khoshtaria, one of the leaders of the "Coalition for Change."

Unity – United National Movement chair Tina Bokuchava has stated that she does not intend to attend the parliamentary investigative commission session.

The Prosecutor’s Office has charged poet Zviad Ratiani in connection with the assault of a police officer.

"Gakharia, who once demanded that I, though innocent, be imprisoned — because supposedly it helped maintain stability — is now, to me, a victim of this regime, and I express my solidarity with him.

"These are not prohibitions — on the contrary, they are specific provisions that establish order, which are necessary and derived from European countries and other nations with strong and leading democracies," said Georgian Dream MP Davit Matikashvili in response to the issue of banning photo-video recording and live broadcasting by the media in court buildings, courtrooms, and court premises.

"Mamuka Khazaradze is exercising and doing well – we discussed issues related to continuing the legal battle," said Zviad Kordzadze, lawyer of Mamuka Khazaradze, one of the leaders of Lelo – For Strong Georgia, after visiting the opposition leader today at Rustavi’s No. 12 penitentiary facility.

The 100-day statute of limitations for filing a lawsuit over defamation, as defined by the Law on Freedom of Speech and Expression, will also apply to statements made before the new regulations come into force, provided that the 100-day limitation period has not yet expired.

Giorgi Vashadze, leader of Strategy Aghmashenebeli, has published a letter from Rustavi’s No. 12 penitentiary facility.

The campaign against Georgia’s national interests continues—the opposition is discredited in the eyes of the people. This is the fate of agents when they are tasked with directly opposing their own country’s national interests, stated Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze in response to a statement made by Foreign Minister Maka Bochorishvili at the Parliament’s Temporary Investigative Commission, where she noted that “Tina Bokuchava and others mention that the suspension of visa-free travel is one of the things they expect to be used against Georgia.”

We have made a decision to completely prohibit the implementation of substitution therapy programs by private entities, stated Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze at today’s briefing.

Even a superficial analysis reveals that the consumption of psychotropic medications in Georgia today—especially benzodiazepines—significantly exceeds reasonable levels, which reinforces the public’s well-founded suspicion that the use of these medications for narcotic purposes is a widespread practice in the country," – said Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze at today’s briefing.

We questioned numerous citizens [businessmen] who directly stated that Mamuka Khazaradze was an appendage of the “National Movement,” like an appendix in medical terms, stated Thea Tsulukiani, Chair of the Parliament’s Investigative Commission, during the Parliament’s plenary session.

Tina Bokuchava, Chairperson of the United National Movement, speaking at the Council of Europe Assembly, stated:

The repression of the opposition in Georgia, through the detention and prosecution of Zurab Japaridze, Nika Melia, Nika Gvaramia, Mamuka Khazaradze, Badri Japaridze, and Giorgi Vashadze, is unacceptable, stated Benjamin Haddad, the French Minister for European Affairs, on the social platform X.

According to Thea Tsulukiani, the Chair of the Parliament’s Investigative Commission, the commission will resend notifications today to the imprisoned opposition leaders Nika Gvaramia, Mamuka Khazaradze, and Giorgi Vashadze, inviting them to participate in the investigative commission remotely. As Tsulukiani explained during the Parliament’s plenary session, it is not ruled out that on Monday, June 30, new cases regarding their non-appearance may be forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia.

"The United National Movement came to power as a result of events that were mistakenly called a revolution – we are investigating this, and most likely, we will say that this was not a velvet revolution. It was a coup d'état, packaged in the form of a velvet revolution," – this statement was made by Tea Tsulukiani, head of the temporary parliamentary commission, during a plenary session of Parliament.

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