საინფორმაციო სააგენტო ინტერპრესნიუსი

"Today, I am on the Shiraki plain, in Dedoplistskaro, together with my colleagues. Meanwhile, from the opposition, Gakharia is in Berlin, the 'Nationals' are in London, some are in Brussels, and who knows where else — but they are not with the Georgian people," said the Speaker of Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, to journalists while speaking about the opposition’s whereabouts during the pre-election period.

“You know that Ms. Salome was a citizen of a foreign country, born and raised there, and it seems she could never truly become Georgian.

“This is a double standard toward a country that, it seems, some do not consider as their equal and instead see as an easy target,” – said the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, to journalists in response to the statement made by 17 European countries and the EU’s High Representative.

“On Friday, the Chargé d’Affaires of Georgia was summoned to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” announced Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.

In Marneuli, law enforcement officers detained a 19-year-old boy on charges of attempting to intentionally murder a minor in connection with the stabbing of a teenager.

Everyone in Georgia today feels that things cannot continue this way. Anger, disappointment, and readiness are all growing simultaneously.

An evacuation was announced at Tbilisi International Airport during the night.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, six citizens from Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, and Egypt have been detained as a result of joint complex operations carried out by the Migration Department and the Border Police of the Ministry.

“The European Union has delayed everything too much because for a year, we’ve been beaten, arrested, and attacked, while the EU itself has created such a heavy and bureaucratic structure, whose weak points Russia exploits very effectively,” said Aleko Elisashvili, one of the leaders of “Lelo – Strong Georgia,” during an appearance on PalitraNews’s program “360 Degrees,” commenting on expected sanctions from the European Union.

“New parliamentary elections under international administration must be scheduled so that Georgia can reclaim its independent path,” wrote Georgia’s fifth President, Salome Zurabishvili, on her X page.

“We strongly condemn the politically motivated arrests and imprisonments of opposition party leaders, which are clearly aimed at suppressing political opposition in Georgia just a few months before local elections,” reads a joint statement by the foreign ministers of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, along with the High Representative of the European Union.

“The British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, gave a very specific response, stating that the Foreign Office is thoroughly investigating the corrupt schemes of Ivanishvili’s regime, including maintaining active contact with British territory, where Ivanishvili personally, as well as his close associates, hide significant amounts of assets in offshore companies,” said Tina Bokuchava, Chairperson of the “National Movement,” who is currently visiting the United Kingdom with other party leaders.

“The Chorchana issue didn’t quite work out, so Plan B has been activated,” said Kakha Kemoklidze, a member of the “Gakharia for Georgia” party, commenting on the start of investigative actions near the Parliament related to the so-called Gavrilov’s Night events.

According to the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found a violation of Article 3 of the Convention in the procedural aspect regarding the events of June 20-21, 2019, and ordered the state to conduct certain investigative actions.

“I’m genuinely curious—did you sleep peacefully last night after the unjust verdict you delivered against Saba Jikia?” These words were addressed by journalist Nika Katsia, who is charged with a drug-related crime, to his case judge, Tamar Mchedlishvili, who yesterday sentenced 19-year-old Saba Jikia, detained during protests, to 4 years and 6 months in prison.

Georgia’s Foreign Minister, Maka Bochorishvili, is on a working visit to Croatia on July 11-12.

The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has charged 34 individuals with the illegal acquisition, storage, and sale of narcotic substances in large and especially large quantities. This information was released by the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office.

“Our opponents and radicals not only want visa-free travel to be suspended, but they also have a great desire for a big bomb to hit the country and wipe out everything here—visa-free travel is an achievement of the Georgian people, protected by international agreements,” said Davit Matikashvili, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Procedural Issues and Rules, in a statement to journalists. He was responding to a question about the possibility that the suspension of visa-free travel and sanctions on judges might be discussed at the European Council’s meeting of EU foreign ministers on July 15.

“Rasa Juknevičienė, as someone with good Soviet experience, has the ability to speak absolute lies without even batting an eyelash—the resolution she participated in drafting is worth less than straw,” said Archil Gorduladze, Chairman of the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee, regarding the European Parliament’s resolution.

“On one side stood the police, on the other side were the protest participants. A stone thrown by the protest participants hit me in the forehead area. If it had hit me in the back of the head, I would have assumed it was thrown by the police. The stone was thrown from the side of the protest participants, hitting me in the forehead, and I lost consciousness,” said Giorgi Janikashvili, head of the Gardabani Criminal Police, during the court hearing for those detained on charges of participating in group violence.