Court accepts UNM leader Melia’s release after EU posts bail
UNM leader Nika Melia is likely to leave prison in the coming hours. Photo: Nika Melia’s Facebook page. Agenda.ge, 10 May 2021 - 17:42, Tbilisi,Georgia
Tbilisi City Court has accepted the release of the head of the United National Movement Nika Melia after the European Union posted Melia’s 40,000 GEL bail on May 8, following the EU-mediated agreement between Georgian political parties in April.
After the completion of technical issues Melia will leave Rustavi prison where he has been in pretrial custody since February 23, 2021.
Melia is charged with incitement to violence during the June protests in Tbilisi back in 2019 which were sparked by the presence of Russian MPs in the Georgian parliament.
Police investigate attack on suspect in the Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case, Mtavari TV crew in David Gareji
Iveri Melashvili told Palitra TV that this attack ‘seemed to be orchestrated’ by someone else. Photo: Mzia Saganelidze/RFERL Agenda.ge, 4 May 2021 - 21:02, Tbilisi,Georgia
Police are investigating an attack on a suspect in the Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case Iveri Melasvhili and the crew of opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi TV which occurred earlier today in David Gareji.
Mtavari Arkhi TV has reported that Melashvili and their crew were attacked by drunk clergy while they were making a video report.
Iveri Melashvili. Photo: Mzia Saganelidze/RFERL
Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case sent to ECHR
The lawyers of Natalia Ilichova and Iveli Melashvili, who have been accused of withholding materials from a border agreement with Azerbaijan that ended ‘against the interests of the state’, claim ‘the case is politicised and their imprisonment is unreasonable’. Photo: IPN Agenda.ge, 20 Apr 2021 - 23:24, Tbilisi,Georgia
Two suspects in the Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case - Iveri Melasvhili and Natalia Ilichova - have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI) announced earlier today that the applicants complain for the violations of several articles of the European Convention of Human Rights.
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The leader of Georgia s United National Movement opposition party (UNM) Nika Melia was refused bail today.
The Judge of Tbilisi City Court Nino Chakhnashvili dismissed Melia from the courtroom because Melia called her ‘a slave’ (of the current government).
The opposition parties which have been demanding Melia’s release for about two months have stated earlier today that the government ‘is not willing to ease the current political tension’ and that Melia ‘remains a political prisoner.’
Melia was arrested on February 23, 2021 for his refusal to pay bail. His release was among top demands of the opposition in the EU-mediated talks last month. However, the mediation efforts ended without the result.
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