Deputy Interior Minister says people, injured in June 20-21 events, will be granted victim’s status after appropriate legal procedures are completed

There are legal issues, appropriate procedures and as soon as they are completed, people, who were injured during June 20-21 events, will be granted victim’s status, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Nino Javakhadze told reporters on Tuesday, while commenting on the judgment of the Tbilisi City Court, which rejected granting the victim’s status to 16 people.

“There are legal issues, appropriate procedures and as soon as they are completed, people, who were injured during June 20-21 events, will be granted victim’s status,” Nino Javakhadze said.

As for the report of the Human Rights Center, saying that disproportionate and excessive power was used against the large-scaled protest demonstration by the law enforcement bodies, the Deputy Interior Minister explained that she had not got familiarized with this report and noted that these issues were being investigated by the General Prosecutor’s Office.

The Tbilisi City Court rejected to recognize any of the 16 people, including Mako Gomuri, as a victim in the June 20 case. Rezo Adjaradze, lawyer of the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association told InterPressNews that they demanded victim’s status for 16 persons, eight of whom were journalists and eight were civilians to recognize any of the 16 people, including Mako Gomuri, as a victim in the June 20 case.