One more young protester detained at Georgian Dream office
The members of the movement held the demonstration at the ruling party headquarter while the leader of the party Bidzina Ivanishvili was meeting with foreign ambassadors. Photo: IPN
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Police have detained yet another member of the Shecvale (change) youth movement, Tite Gedenidze, in front of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party office earlier today.
Gedenidze is the fourth young activist, who has been detained at the GD headquarter. The three other detainees are Nika Parulava, Beka Papashvili and Otar Shengelia.
The demonstrators wanted to enter the GD office, but police blocked the way, which became the reason for a confrontation between them.
The members of the movement had held the demonstration at the ruling party headquarter while Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the party was meeting with the ambassadors of the European Union countries.
Photo: Georgian Dream press office
Opposition and civic activists, who have been protesting the rejection of the election bill since November 14, are holding demonstrations at various locations since then.
The ruling party expressed their willingness to change the current mixed electoral system to fully proportional during June protests in Tbilisi to meet one of their three demands.
However, at a plenary session on November 14, the bill was rejected as it could not receive enough support from the MPs.
While all of the opposition MPs voted in favour, 40 ruling party MPs either voted against or abstained, leading to protest rallies in front of the parliament.
Police dispersed a rally on November 18 with the use of water cannons as demonstrators blocked the entrances of the parliament building, preventing MPs from entering the building.
The opposition has announced that the parliament will be blocked again on November 26, “following a large-scale rally on November 25.”
Police have detained three members of the Shecvale (change) Youth Movement in front of the Georgian Dream (GD) office today.
Ten demonstrators detained during the November 18 rally dispersal in central Tbilisi have been sent to five-13 days in prison for ‘hooliganism and disobedience to police.’
Demonstrators who have been protesting the rejection of the election bill since November 14 have gathered in front of the administration building of the government of Georgia in central Tbilisi earlier today, demanding snap parliamentary elections with the use of a fully proportional electoral system, conducted by an interim government.Protests in Tbilisi were sparked after the ruling Georgian Dream party proposed election bill last week was scrapped.
All 37 individuals who were detained during the November 18 rally dispersal in front of the parliament building of Georgia for hooliganism and disobedience to police have been temporarily released by a Tbilisi City Court judge late yesterday.Discussions around the cases are scheduled to resume later today at the same court.
In a statement released in response to local NGOs accusing the judge Valeriane Pilishvili of partiality, Tbilisi City Court said recent hearings have been held under deliberate discreditation from the detainees and their supporters, disinformation campaign and sharp criticism.
Six have been detained for hooliganism and disobedience to police while protesting in front of the headquarters of the Georgian State Security Service earlier today. Demonstrators at the State Security Service building demanded a meeting with the head of the state agency Grigol Liluashvili “to ask him why police are detaining demonstrators in Tbilisi.”