'White Coats' Rally to be held in Support of Illegally Detained Doctor

The rally of 'White Coats' will be held in support of Vazha Gaprindashvili, the Georgian doctor detained by the Tskhinvali occupation regime, the movement 'Freedom to Doctor Vazha' said in a statement on Monday morning.

The rally will be held at 12:00 on Monday in front of the medical facilities.

“The rally will be held to express our support for Vazha Gaprindashvili and to protest his illegal detention. We will stand together and hold the five-minute silence protest,” the statement reads.

Famous Georgian doctor and traumatologist has been sent to two months of pretrial detention. The trial was held today on November 15. 

He was illegally detained near the village of Orchosani on November 9 and was charged with 'illegally crossing the border,' of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region.

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