Interior Ministry investigating clash between students at lecture by ruling party head
The body said it was studying the incident, following which TSU student Luka Shvelidze was taken to the Khechinashvili Hospital with injuries. Photo via Interior Ministry
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The Georgian Interior Ministry on Saturday said it was investigating a clash between students of Tbilisi State University that took place during a lecture led by the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party on Saturday, as well as a subsequent incident at a hospital in Tbilisi.
The body said it was studying the incident, following which TSU student Luka Shvelidze was taken to the Khechinashvili Hospital with injuries.
Taking place during a class led by Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of Georgian Dream who is also a lecturer at the University, the clash was reported after some of the students protested the lecture.
The Ministry said law enforcement were also investigating an incident at the Hospital following the clash at TSU, in which Shvelidze said an armed individual in plainclothes had entered his hospital room and threatened him with arrest.
In its comments, the Ministry said Shvelidze had alleged the individual had "not formally introduced himself as a police officer and had been under the influence of alcohol".
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Saturday said it had launched an investigation into an assault on Zurab Girchi Japaridze, the leader of the Girchi - More Freedom opposition party, in the central Georgian municipality of Gori on Saturday.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on Wednesday said police officers had arrested an individual for an assault on a reporter in the Black Sea city of Batumi earlier today.
Georgian Police arrested 16 individuals for administrative offences during a protest outside Kvareli Lake Resort in Georgia's east, the local media outlet Interpressnews said on Saturday.
Three individuals have been arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers in southeastern Georgia’s Marneuli region, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
The District Court in the central Georgian municipality of Gori on Monday ruled to keep the individual arrested for assault on Zurab Girchi Japaridze, the leader of the Girchi - More Freedom opposition party, in the locality on Saturday in custody, ahead of hearings in the case.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Friday said it was investigating a clash between supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream and the opposition United National Movement parties in Georgia’s town of Kaspi.