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“My clients are very concerned about their daughter,” Tamar Arminak, Lynn Bynes’ attorney, told ABC News in a statement at the time.

Rangel’s attorney, Tamar Arminak, said her client felt vindicated by the jury’s decision, after spending years trying to blow the whistle about a division that was essentially run as its own fiefdom.

"We are witnessing the abuse of the law-making," says Tamar Oniani, human rights programme director at the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association.

Last month fines went up ten-fold for blocking the road or disobeying the police and Tamar Oniani says in one day alone they received 150 calls from protesters who had been fined.

Tamar Oniani says the "judiciary is fully captured" and acts as one of the instruments against the demonstrators, who she says have been beaten in custody.