Thirteen still in hospital after Tbilisi June 20 protests
A journalist who got injuries during the protests. Photo: Georgian Charter of Journalist Ethics.
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Thirteen people remain hospitalized out of the 240 who were injured during June 20 Tbilisi protests.
Head of Emergency Management Center of Georgia Avtandil Talakvadze said two of the injured are in intensive care department.
He added that their health condition is stable. Both of them have been put on a ventilator.
Talakvadze stated five people may be discharged from the hospital today.
80 police officers were among the 240 people who were injured during Tbilisi clashes on June 20.
Two people lost eyesight in one eye.
Early on June 20, Russian MP Sergey Gavrilov took the seat of the parliamentary speaker in the parliament to address the audience during the 26th Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy which was being held in Georgia at the time.
The move caused protest amongst the public and opposition MPs.
Riot police dispersed the rally later that evening using tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon as protestors tried to storm the parliament building.
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir denounced “the violent incidents and mistreatment of media workers” during the June 20’s demonstration in Tbilisi, saying that “journalists’ safety must be ensured at all times”.
The Georgian Patriarchate says the government made a mistake which made people rally in central Tbilisi yesterday and that the opposition has been making ‘incorrect calls’ which gave rise to tensions during the demonstration.
32 journalists received injuries during the June 20 demonstration in Tbilisi, many of them were shot by rubber bullet shots, the Georgian Charter of Journalist Ethics said earlier today.
240 individuals were hospitalised after yesterday’s rally in Tbilisi, many of them with minor injuries, 80 were law enforcers, Deputy Health Minister Zaza Bokhua stated earlier today while visiting patients at the Ingorokva Clinic in Tbilisi.
EU Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell has made his first comments regarding June 20 events and following rallies in Tbilisi, praising the offer of the Georgian Dream ruling party on elections and urged the investigation of rally dispersal in central Tbilisi last week.
Six people remain hospitalised out of 240 who were injured during the protest rally in front of the parliament of Georgia on June 20. Ruling party MP Dimitri Khundadze announced on behalf of the Georgian Dream that their main priority is to care for the health of citizens.
The European Georgia and the United National Movement opposition parties have refused to attend the presentation at 2 p.m., when the Georgian Dream ruling party will propose the changes in the constitution for Georgia to have fully proportional voting in the 2020 parliamentary elections, the electoral system have demanded by the opposition for years.
One of the men detained for incitement to violence at June 20 rally in Tbilisi, Soso Bajelidze, has been released on 5,000 GEL ($1,677) bail earlier on September 16.
The violent June 20 clash between protesters and security services in Tbilisi and subsequent demonstrations in the capital "largely harmed" security conditions in the country, a report by Georgia's State Security Service has said.