UNM Gori majoritarian candidate’s son detained for gender-based violence
An official statement released by the Interior Ministry reads that Luka Bidzinashvili physically assaulted a transgender woman in Tbilisi. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Police have detained Luka Bidzinashvili, son of the Gori majoritarian candidate of the United National Movement opposition party for gender-based violence.
An official statement released by the Interior Ministry reads that Luka Bidzinashvili physically assaulted a transgender woman in Tbilisi.
The crime is punishable by up to one year in prison.
Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe reports that members of the UNM were searching for Luka Bidzinashvili yesterday in Georgia’s eastern town of Gori before he was taken to the Gldani-Nadzaladevi police station in Tbilisi for questioning.
The detainee’s father Levan Bidzinashvili told RFE/RL that on September 28 a car stopped in the centre of the village of Karbi. After finding his son Luka Bidzinashvili, police officers put him in the car and took him away.
Levan Bidzinashvili also said that the individuals in the car were police officers, but they were not employees of the local police department.
Badri Basishvili, member of the UNM party said that the kidnapping of their candidate’s son was connected with Levan Bidzinashvili’s political activities.
Police have detained 28-year-old Davit Dautashvili for stabbing two supporters of the opposition United National Movement party in Georgia’s eastern Dmanisi municipality, reports the Interior Ministry.
Acting Mayor of Dmanisi in the Kvemo Kartli region Giorgi Tatuashvili says local members of the ruling Georgian Dream party attacked two opposition supporters during his election meeting in the village of Gantiadi earlier today.