The Batumi City Court found Ukrainian Maryna Chobanyan guilty of disobeying the police during a protest against a cruise liner with Russians on board and fined her 2 000 lari (about 28 000 hryvnias).
The "News — Georgia" portal writes about this.
At the same time, the court dismissed the charges of petty hooliganism and violation of public order against the citizen of Ukraine.
The woman stated that the unjustified detention by the police was aggressive and sudden, so she did not understand what was happening and instinctively started to wave away. The court ignored her arguments.
Maryna Chobanyan will file an appeal. She stated: “I was accused of disobeying a ʼlawful demandʼ by the police, who could not prove the grounds for their actions. The court, having dismissed the charge of petty disorderly conduct, itself confirmed that there were no grounds for detention, so what is the legal requirement?"
- On August 1, it became known that two Ukrainians Maryna Chobanyan and Dmytro Zakrevskyi were detained at the protests in Batumi against the Russian liner.
- The liner first arrived in Batumi on July 27, after which a demonstration took place in the Batumi port, and the ship left the city amid protests. He came in for the second time on July 31.
- On May 10, 2023, Putin signed a decree and canceled the visa regime for Georgian citizens from May 15, 2023, and also canceled the ban on air transportation from Russia to Georgia, which was in effect since June 2019.