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TBILISI – Ten Georgian opposition activists have been sentenced to short jail terms or fined for their actions during an unsanctioned protest in Tbilisi, Radio Liberty reported.

The activists were detained on Monday near the Supreme Court building in the Georgian capital, where they were protesting prison conditions. The demonstrators threw eggs at the building and attempted to block a major road.

Activist Gennady Kekeliya of the Resistance Movement was sentenced to 25 days in jail. Irakliy Tsikoliya, Grigory Kharebava, and David Kochiev were each given 20-day sentences.

Six other activists from nongovernmental organizations were fined the equivalent of $235 each.

Well-known Soviet-era dissident Nana Kakabadze, who leads the Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO, said that she considered both the arrest of the "peaceful demonstrators" and the verdicts "a flagrant violation of basic human rights."

The Tbilisi court found the defendants guilty of breaking a Georgian law that prohibits the blocking of roads and holding protests 20 meters or less from any administrative building.