Prosecutor's Office: Investigators Asked Standard Questions to June 20 Demonstrators
"Investigators asked the rally participants standard questions, according to a procedure established by law," the Prosecutor General's Office said in response to the statement made by Mako Gomuri, a young girl who lost her eye during the dispersal of the June 20 rally in front of the Parliament.
“Various standard procedures were carried out to provide additional information to the medical examiner within the framework of the investigation into the alleged abuse of power by individual law enforcement officers on June 20-21.
Within the framework of the ongoing investigative actions, the investigation, in order to obtain information required by the medical examiner, asked standard questions to the rally participants, according to a procedure established by law.
The public will be additionally informed about the final decisions in the case,” the investigation agency said.
Mako Gomuri said yesterday that she was called and asked by investigators if she had lost a healthy eye during the dispersal.
Protests on Rustaveli Avenue started on June 20 in reaction to the visit of three Russian MPs to Georgia within the framework of a session of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy held at the Parliament building, mostly due to the fact that Russian MP Sergei Gavrilov sat in the parliamentary Speaker’s chair, speaking in Russian, which many Georgians saw as the unwelcome reminder of the Russian occupation of the country's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The protest turned into clashes with police after protesters tried to enter the parliament building.
The so-called Gavrilov Night protest was dispersed by riot police with the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon. 240 individuals, including 32 journalists and 80 law enforcers, were injured during a clash on Rustaveli Avenue on June 20-21.
By Ana Dumbadze
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