Lasha Chkhartishvili, member of the Free Georgia (detained for the protest action intention) went on hunger strike in the jail.
Aleko Shalamberidze, member of the People's Party explained his actions as directed against the violent dispersion of the protest action on May 26 and demand for the investigation of the cases concerning lost people after the dispersion of the public meeting. He made public a declaration of Lasha Chkhartishvili:
"I demand from the MIA to recognize the people who disappeared after the May 26 as a lost people, and to search them. The NGOs entered the list of those people who attended the public demonstration on May 26 and were lost. As well I demand to establish the investigation commission with participation of independent experts, international organizations which will study the crime committed by government on May 26, "- the declaration reads.
For information Lasha Chkhartishvili was detained alongside with family members of Irakli Batiashvili and other oppositionists who were trying to organize the protest action at the Parliament against May 26 violent dispersion of public demonstration.