Tbilisi. Institute for Development of Freedom of Information released a statement on Latest Developments Regarding Illegal Arrest of Giorgi Kldiashvili.

"On December 12th, 2014 Giorgi Kldiashvili, Director of IDFI was arrested by the Department of Central Criminal Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia. ...illegal arrest of Giorgi Kldiashvili for two days, (2) launch of criminal rather than administrative prosecution and (3) allusion to civic activism of Giorgi Kldiashvili and his organization, - unambiguously implies that the Ministry of Internal Affairs as well as the Prosecutor’s office of Georgia aimed at unduly influencing and intimidating Giorgi Kldiashvili. This ongoing trend of law enforcement activities can be seen as an attempt to influence the activities of civil society group of which, IDFI is a member of. IDFI will closely follow and report about proceedings related to Giorgi Kldiashvili’s case".

Source: idfi.ge