Authorities will not allow me to be released - Nika Melia responds to the "Mtavari Channel" from prison

Whether Nika Melia will be released from illegal detention will be decided by Judge Nino Chakhnashvili on April 8. The two-month pre-trial detention of the opposition leader expires on April 17, therefore, the judge is obliged to reconsider the issue of preventive measures at the scheduled court hearing.
The prisoner from the cell 224 is convinced that the court will again announce the pre-written political decision and leave him in prison again. Nika Melia answered the questions of the "Mtavari Channel" once again, this time in writing.

“I think the court will not overturn the decision to detain me for political reasons because, unfortunately, we are out of the legal space and have a wild agenda in the country where the government believes that the opponent should be oppressed, including through arrest. Despite the pressure from the West, the government will not allow me to be released because in this case, at the next  round of negotiations Ivanishvili's representatives will have to sit down with me at the table, where I will have the greatest moral and psychological advantage and  I will not explain now why. Besides, the government will not allow me to be actively involved in the preparation of the May 15 protest rally and to go around Tbilisi and all districts for this purpose," - said Nika Melia.

Melia has not changed his position on the crisis and the way out of it created in the country. Like all other opposition politicians, he says that without early elections, the situation in the country will not change for the better.

"In other words, rigged elections have dramatically worsened people's lives over the past five months, making everything abnormally expensive and the population impoverished. All of this is not because we live in a cursed country, but because we have an irresponsible government. Early elections are not an obsession, it's just that the climate created in the country cannot change without them. Consequently, with our esteemed foreign friends involved, trying to end the political crisis is tantamount to irrigating the desert without early elections. Only change can transform a poor and criminal state into a progressive country where people can live happily," - Melia said.

For political reasons, Nika Melia is confident that he will be sent back from court to Rustavi prison. On the contrary, human rights activists find it difficult to make accurate predictions. According to them, there was no reason for Melia's detention at the time of her arrest, nor, of course, now, although the case is political in their estimation and, therefore, the lawyers are convinced that the court will announce the ruling of the "Georgian Dream."