The Court"s decision on Irakli Chkhvrikia and Merab Ghoghoberidze, convicted for the events in Batumi, was followed by political assessments. In the "National Movement", they say that Chkhvrikia is a political prisoner and his case will go to the Strasbourg Court.

"The verdict against Irakli Chkhvikia is a political sentence because it can not be called something else when people are being put in prison because of one TV comment. , "said Mirdat Kamadadze, chairperson of the Batumi Sakrebulo faction" United National Movement ".

Irakli Chkhvikia and Merab Ghoghoberidze were sentenced to imprisonment for organization of Batumi events