Despite the growing repression in Georgia, thousands of people again demonstrated against their prorussian government on Monday, February 3, for the 68e day in a row. The protesters are demanding the holding of new elections after the legislative election of October 26, 2024, tried “Trucked” And who granted a fourth mandate to the ruling party, a Georgian dream. They also ask for the release of demonstrators imprisoned since the beginning of the proeuropian movement.
The day before, the demonstrations were brutally repressed in Tbilisi. The independent channel Pirveli broadcast images showing the police violently hitting arrested protesters. The police also arrested two opposition leaders, Nika Melia, of the Proeuropian Liberal Party Akhali, and Guigui Ougoulava, a former mayor of Tbilissi. The two men participated with thousands of people at the attempt to block a highway at the entrance to the capital. Before this action, the Georgian interior ministry warned that such a blockage could be considered “Like a crime punishable up to four years in prison”.
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Source: Lemonde