Happy Independence Day beloved Georgia!
გილოცავთ დამოუკიდებლობის დღეს! დიდება საყვარელ საქართველოს!🇬🇪❤️
(აღმოჩნდა, რომ პირველი რესპუბლიკის დროშასთან გადაღებული ფოტო არ მაქვს)
Summary video of the 344th continuous protest day in Tbilisi. A large police mobilization appeared on Rustaveli Avenue what prevented the closing of the road for the first time after 343 days, although the attempt. After this protesters started to march to different locations.
During the evening a 15 years old minor also got arrested on Liberty Square in Tbilisi. According to witnesses he got into a conflict with TV Imedi's operator who also raised his hand on the minor.
Around 2 hours after his arrest, the 15 years old got released.
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Guram Gongadze, a 22 years old student got arrested during the evening next to the parliament for blocking the road. At least five people got arrested in the evening in connection with the protests and mainly for blocking Rustaveli Avenue.
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The arrests continued in Tbilisi during the evening, poet Paata Shamugia was among those who got arrested close to Liberty Square metro on Rustaveli Avenue. Paata Shamugia was among those who closed Rustaveli Avenue for around 20 minutes.
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Police is putting more efforts to identify protesters in Tbilisi. They are recording them more with phones and with bodycams. The stopping of citizens on the streets for identification continues, together with the arrests.
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340th continuous protest day in Tbilisi. The protest day started with a mother's march. Then continued on Rustaveli Avenue where the road got closed again. Police is using more and more methods to identify people on the protest making recordings with phones and their bodycams.
70+ years old Zura Menteshashvili got arrested on Rustaveli Avenue, one day after he got freed from his first arrest. Menteshashvili first got arrested on 24 October in their home garage, the reasoning of the arrest was blocking the road during a protest. #GeorgiaProtests
332nd day of the #GeorgiaProtests. Rustaveli Avenue was closed. High police mobilization was present both when the road was closed and when it got opened. Apart from it the protest continued from the sidewalks.
330th day of the #GeorgiaProtests. Protesters blocked Rustaveli Avenue after the sidewalk pretty much got filled. An hour later they opened the road on their own.
Close to 30 person got arrested on Rustaveli Avenue during the 329th day of the #GeorgiaProtests.
Some also got injured during the arrests. People got arrested from the sidewalks as well. Handful amount of arrests visible in this video.
327th day of the #GeorgiaProtests. Police ordered the opening of Rustaveli Avenue during this day again, what remained closed. Police also continued to stop people for identification and in search for masks and other banned tools.
326th day of the #GeorgiaProtests. At one point police showed up and ordered protesters to open Rustaveli Avenue but the road remained blocked. High police mobilization was all around Rustaveli stopping people for identification.
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Protests continued for the 325th day in a row in Georgia. Rustaveli Avenue got blocked twice, as police opened it, so the protest continued on the side of the road for 1,5 hours before the second road block.
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324th day of the #GeorgiaProtests. Protests continued regardless that stricter laws came into force with heavier punishment for protest activities such as road blocking or mask wearing, giving the option to imprison demonstrators for violating it.
🇫🇮🇬🇪On @yle.naamio.social: "Analysis: Activist who spoke with Valtonen was arrested – Georgia's democratic crisis deepens" - by Hanna Visala
-the situation in Georgia with today's new arrests, in it the story of Mariam Mekantsishvili who spoke with Finland's FM Elina Valtonen.
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This video made from the arrested Mariam Mekantsishvili yesterday evening. It got stated that during the arrest the use of special forces were necessary because the protesters were hiding.
Mariam is a single mother of a 6 years old. She got arrested in home.
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🇫🇮🇬🇪On @yle.naamio.social: "Analysis: Activist who spoke with Valtonen was arrested – Georgia's democratic crisis deepens" - by Hanna Visala
-the situation in Georgia with today's new arrests, in it the story of Mariam Mekantsishvili who spoke with Finland's FM Elina Valtonen.
Link👇🏼
New arrests happened in the morning in Georgia: one of them is Mariam Mekantsishvili, one of the activist who talked with OSCE Chairperson and Finnish FM @elinavaltonen.bsky.social. The information shared by Mariam’s sister in the morning. People are trying to find out more about the case.
🇫🇮🇬🇪On @yle.naamio.social: "Analysis: Activist who spoke with Valtonen was arrested – Georgia's democratic crisis deepens" - by Hanna Visala
-the situation in Georgia with today's new arrests, in it the story of Mariam Mekantsishvili who spoke with Finland's FM Elina Valtonen.
Link👇🏼
This video made from the arrested Mariam Mekantsishvili yesterday evening. It got stated that during the arrest the use of special forces were necessary because the protesters were hiding.
Mariam is a single mother of a 6 years old. She got arrested in home.
#GeorgiaProtests
New arrests happened in the morning in Georgia: one of them is Mariam Mekantsishvili, one of the activist who talked with OSCE Chairperson and Finnish FM @elinavaltonen.bsky.social. The information shared by Mariam’s sister in the morning. People are trying to find out more about the case.
New arrests happened in the morning in Georgia: one of them is Mariam Mekantsishvili, one of the activist who talked with OSCE Chairperson and Finnish FM @elinavaltonen.bsky.social. The information shared by Mariam’s sister in the morning. People are trying to find out more about the case.
321st day of the #GeorgiaProtests.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, @elinavaltonen.bsky.social together with members of the delegation who are in Tbilisi visited the protest and talked with protesters after meeting with Georgian Dream representatives.
323rd day of the #GeorgiaProtests. A new anti-crisis platform got presented during the protest and a small rock concert also given on Rustaveli Avenue.
321st day of the #GeorgiaProtests.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, @elinavaltonen.bsky.social together with members of the delegation who are in Tbilisi visited the protest and talked with protesters after meeting with Georgian Dream representatives.
On the 319th day of the continuous protests in Tbilisi, a march got held ‘Georgia cannot be captured!’ from Vere Park to the parliament, lead by prisoners’ relatives.
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319th day of the #GeorgiaProtests.
The prisoners’ relatives lead the march dressed in black and white prison clothes.
Video cut from the march coming on @eebc.bsky.social.
317th day of the #GeorgiaProtests.
Doctors held a protest in support for the 72 years old doctor Giorgi Chakhunashvili, who got arrested in his home yesterday.
Arrests continues, more than 40 person got arrested in connection with the October 4 events.
The arrestings continues in Georgia. 72 year old doctor Giorgi Chakhunashvili got arrested in his home after 22:00. The events being close to the parliament, the participants of the daily protest gone to the house to show support for Giorgi Chakhunashvili.
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Continued during the 315th protest day in Tbilisi that there was no police presence next to the protesters, neither during the march or in front of the parliament. Protesters made sure about the road closure and in the end they opened it on their own.
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One the 314th day of the #GeorgiaProtests police tried to open the road after 21:00 and they stopped restricting the traffic, all the cars started to go on Rustaveli meanwhile people were on the road. Protesters stopped the cars and reoccupied the road.
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