Human Rights Defenders Do Not Agree with the Draft Law of Administrative Code

The human rights defenders do not agree with the draft law of the new Administrative Criminal Code. If the draft law is enacted the administrative punishments will become more severe.

Non-governmental organizations are concerned because liabilities have become more severe for everybody who breaches the law on demonstrations and manifestations.

Chairman of the association “Law for People”, and former MP Zakaria Kutsnashvili said in his conversation with the newspaper Resonance that if current law envisages maximum thirty-day-imprisonment for the crime, the new draft law will envisage three-month-imprisonment for the same violation.

According to Kutsnashvili, a person cannot be imprisoned for three months because of simple mistakes during the demonstrations and manifestations. It is too severe punishment.

Source: Media.ge