Rally demanding Interior Minister’s resignation is underway outside Interior Ministry

A protest rally demanding the resignation of Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri is underway outside the Internal Affairs Ministry.

The participants are insisting that that the Minister is responsible for the death of a 15-year-old boy, who tried suicide after being questioned in the First Police Unit of Tbilisi’s Didube-Chughureti district on December 10-11 and died at Tbilisi’s Iashvili Children’s Hospital on December 17.

The minor was interrogated within the investigation into the fact of offensive graffiti in the territory of one of Tbilisi’s schools. The Internal Affairs Minister said that an investigator has been detained in conneciton with this case.