Tbilisi, Georgia--- On Friday, Georgian police detained a second opposition leader in a few days as protests in the South Caucasus region remained against the political Georgian Dream Party.

Nika Melia, one of the adults of Georgia's pro-Western Alliance for Change, said his car was stopped by police on Thursday. Soon after, he was tied up by a large number of people wearing civilian costumes.

According to the Georgia Department of the Interior, Melia was detained for verbally insulting law enforcement officers.

The arrest comes a week after Zurab Japaridze, another leader of another coalition of political parties that support EU integration and hope to restore democratic standards.

Girchi Head - More Liberal Japaridze refused to appear before a parliamentary committee on May 22 to investigate what had been said by former President Mikheil Saakashvili's government.

Opposition politicians refused to attend the committee's hearing, saying they were harming the opposition's political motives by the Georgian dream, especially Saakashvili's United National Movement Party.

Melia of the Akhari Party, former chairman of the United National Movement Party of Saakashvili, was detained on the eve of a scheduled court hearing for failing to testify.

Japaridze and seven other opposition politicians, not including Melia, will appear in court in the coming days. If convicted of failing to comply with the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry, they will face one year in prison.

Meanwhile, demonstrators continued to gather in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, demanding new elections and the release of dissidents. The night protests began on November 28, when Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stopped the country's EU integration process.

Georgia has had widespread political turmoil since the country's last parliamentary election on October 26, which was won by the Georgian dream. Protesters and opposition in the country announced the result was illegal among allegations of Russian help, sparking weeks of protests across the country.

At that time, opposition leaders vowed to boycott parliamentary meetings until new parliamentary elections were held under international supervision and investigated alleged voting violations.

The Georgian Dream has widely condemned European leaders and international rights groups for their rough handling of protesters and their backwardness of view of democracy.