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Police have detained Luka Bidzinashvili, son of the Gori majoritarian candidate of the United National Movement opposition party for gender-based violence.

An official statement released by the Interior Ministry reads that Luka Bidzinashvili physically assaulted a transgender woman in Tbilisi.

The crime is punishable by up to one year in prison.

Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe reports that members of the UNM were searching for Luka Bidzinashvili yesterday in Georgia’s eastern town of Gori before he was taken to the Gldani-Nadzaladevi police station in Tbilisi for questioning.

The detainee’s father Levan Bidzinashvili told RFE/RL that on September 28 a car stopped in the centre of the village of Karbi. After finding his son Luka Bidzinashvili, police officers put him in the car and took him away.