31 May 2011, 20:00
The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia has no information about the citizens who disappeared after dispersal of the meeting
The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia has not received a single statement of disappearance of citizens after dispersal of the action of "People's Assembly" at night of May, 26, in Rustaveli avenue, Press service of the Ministry reports.
"After the Ministry of Interior Affairs called for all those concerned to provide information on the citizens who disappeared during dispersal of the unauthorized meeting of May, 26, not a single statement has been submitted to the Ministry of Interior Affairs up to the present moment", Press service report runs.
In connection with this the Ministry of Interior Affairs declares that it does not regard any citizen as missing, "Novosti-Georgia" reports.
Earlier, the Ministry of Interior Affairs issued a wanted notice concerning one of the leaders of the "People's Assembly" Irakli Batiashvili upon his relatives' public statement, however, on the same day Batiashvili contacted his family and emerged at a press-conference.
Last weekend Georgian mass media published a list of missing people based on telephone calls from members of their families coming to the "hotline" organized by the journalists, "GHN" reports.
A non-governmental organization "Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia" also published a list of the names of forty nine persons who disappeared during dispersal of the unauthorized meeting of the opposition at night of May, 26.