FILE - Nika Melia, head of the United National Movement, speaks to Georgian opposition supporters of former president Mikheil Saakashvili during a rally in his support in front of the prison where ...

A leader of one of Georgia's main opposition groups was sentenced to an additional 1-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday after ...

Nika Melia, one of the leaders of the opposition Coalition for Change, was arrested on 29 May, his lawyer confirmed. This comes one day before his scheduled court hearing regarding charges related to ...

TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian police on Friday detained a second opposition leader within days as protests continue in the South Caucasus country against the ruling Georgian Dream party. Lawyers for ...

TBILISI -- Thousands of representatives of different opposition parties and civil rights activists rallied in front of Georgia's government building on February 23, demanding the immediate release of ...

TBILISI -- Georgian opposition leader Nika Melia, newly released from prison on bail with the help of the European Union, has said that he plans to speak soon with self-exiled former President Mikheil ...

Lawmakers from parties aligned against the government have vowed to continue a boycott of Parliament until Nika Melia is released from police custody. By Andrew E. Kramer MOSCOW — Major opposition ...

TBILISI, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Hundreds took to the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday to demand the release of opposition leader Nika Melia, after his detention threatened to intensify a ...

Georgia's leader of the United National Movement, Nika Melia, shouts from a window of his party's headquarters as the police raid the building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Feb. 23. (Vano Shlamov/AFP/Getty ...

MOSCOW — Georgian authorities arrested the South Caucasus country's top opposition leader Tuesday, deepening its political rift and plunging yet another ex-Soviet state into crisis. Nika Melia, leader ...