The State Security Service has made a statement, urging "destructive forces" to refrain from criminal wrongdoings and to remain within legal frames.

The Service said that various persons have been disseminating public statements with signs of a crime in social networks and the mass media lately.

"Deliberately or accidentally, citizens make direct calls to like-minded people for carrying out a revolution and deposing the government, including by violent methods. Calls for a violent change of Georgia's constitutional order or the deposition of the authorities or/and the dissemination of materials comprising such calls as well as calls to take up arms for the same purpose are criminal acts punishable under Article 317 of the Criminal Code of Georgia with imprisonment for up to three years.”

“Within the frames of its competence, the SSS will take all legal measures set forth in the legislation to protect the constitutional order in Georgia and to prevent an unconstitutional and violent change of the authorities. We call destructive forces again to refrain from wrongdoings and remain within legal frames," the SSS said.

On 29 October, the SSS said that an investigation into "coup conspiracy" was launched. The agency said that people involved in the case planned to prevent the transfer of imprisoned former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to a prison hospital if his health deteriorated.

The agency asserted that they planned to resort to various measures to block the roads leading to the Penitentiary Facility No 8 in Gldani (District of Tbilisi, where Saakashvili is supposed to be transferred) to hinder his transfer.