Protest participant Sergey Kancheli says that on 27 September he became a victim of physical violence, verbal abuse, and threats by police. According to him, police officers stopped him near the Kukia Cemetery, then took him onto the cemetery grounds, where they physically assaulted him and threatened him with a firearm and a knife. The activist says he was also forced to perform an act of a sexual nature.

Sergey Kancheli links the violence by police to his civic position. Due to the incident, the activist was forced to leave the country.

On 8 October, it became known that the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia had launched an investigation into alleged violence against Sergey Kancheli.