3,000 GEL fined for a political Facebook page: A court in Tbilisi found the singer Sufo Batilashvili guilty of petty hooliganism for publishing her version of the protest hit "Ole, Ola.
The Ministry of the Interior believed that the obscene song insults the supporters of the Georgian dream, and the defense insisted that the sentence violates the constitutional right to creative freedom.
The song was published on October 8.
"Ole, ola" is a song that uses obscene protest chants dedicated to the "Georgian Dream". It accompanied hundreds of videos from anti-government protests in late 2024 and literally took over the Georgian section of TikTok. The demonstrations then followed Prime Minister Irakli Kobkidze's statement that the authorities would not raise the issue of opening negotiations on Georgia's accession to the European Union until 2028.