UPDATE: Court sets bail at 70k GEL for opposition MP Nika Melia

Updated at 20:20

Tbilisi City Court has set bail at 70,000 GEL for United National Movement MP Nika Melia. He has also been prohibited from leaving Georgia without informing the prosecution in advance and receiving its consent. 

Earlier at 16:15

The General Prosecutor’s Office demanded bail be set at 100,000 GEL for Melia, who took off a monitoring bracelet during a rally on November 1 while protesting the parliamentary election results  in front of the parliament.

As opposition party leaders do not accept Georgia’s parliamentary election results, Melia called on the public to gather in front of the parliament building on November 1.

• Opposition boycotts results, demands repeat elections

While addressing rally members on November 1, Melia said he would not wear the monitoring bracelet anymore because it is a symbol of injustice and violence.

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Calling it a ‘violent bracelet’, Melia said he refuses to wear it anymore. ‘’Whether I will be imprisoned, or in a war together with you in the coming days, the nation will win”, he said

UNM majoritarian MP Melia, who was charged with incitement to violence during the June 20-21 protests in Tbilisi last year, has to wear an electronic bracelet to be monitored.

Melia was released on 30,000 GEL (about $10,000) bail on June 27 and was prohibited from leaving home without previously informing law enforcers, making public statements in public areas and communicating with witnesses.

Today all eight opposition parties who crossed the one per cent election threshold  in the October 31 parliament elections have signed an agreement not to take up their mandates in parliament.

12 other opposition parties, who were unable to enter the legislative body, also signed the agreement  and stated that the elections were not legitimate as they were fabricated.