Activists Jailed for Public Disorder

Four members of the non-governmental organization Equality Institute, including chief of this group Irakli Kakabadze, were sentenced to 30-day imprisonment for staging disorders in a court.

Four men were insulting judge during a court hearing of 202 TV founder Shalva Ramishvili?s case, Eka Tkeshelashvili, Chairman of the Court of Appeals, said.

Irakli Kakabadze and his co-thinkers were arrested when they were holding a protest rally outside the building of the Court of Appeals on June 29 and calling through a megaphone for unbiased consideration of the Ramishvili?s case.

Activists of the Equality Institute were rallying at the Courts of Appeals to support Shalva Ramishvili, who was sentenced by the Tbilisi City Court in March for 4 years for extortion.

Some opposition politicians, as well as some human rights groups have already condemned arrest of Equality Institute activists as illegal.

The Equality Institute became known with series of protest rallies held recently in Tbilisi against the policy violence.