(19 Nov 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Tbilisi, Georgia – 19 November 2024
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1. Police move in on protesters
2. Police lead a protester away, another pushes the camera ++PROFANITY++
3. Various of police forcibly removing protesters
4. Tracking shot of retreating protestors
5. Various of police walking forwards towards protesters
6. Various of unconscious protester receiving attention from crowds and paramedics
7. Police drag protesters away
STORYLINE:
Several people were arrested when police broke up a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia on Tuesday morning.
In video shot by The Associated Press, police can be seen dragging a number of protesters away while another needed medical treatment and was carried away by paramedics.
Demonstrators in Georgia’s capital have vowed Monday to stay around the clock to demand new parliamentary elections in the country.
The Oct. 26 election kept the governing Georgian Dream party in power, but opponents say the vote was rigged with Russia’s assistance.
Many Georgians viewed the election as a referendum on the country’s effort to join the European Union. Several large protests have been held since then.
President Salome Zourabichvili, who has rejected the official results, declared on Monday that she would appeal the vote results to the Constitutional Court. Zourabichvili, who holds a mostly ceremonial position, has said Georgia has fallen victim to pressure from Moscow against joining the EU.
Critics have accused Georgian Dream, established by Bidzina Ivanishvili, a shadowy billionaire who made his fortune in Russia, of becoming increasingly authoritarian and tilted toward Moscow.
The party recently pushed through laws similar to those used by the Kremlin to crack down on freedom of speech and LGBTQ+ rights.
The EU suspended Georgia’s membership application process indefinitely in June after the country’s parliament passed a law requiring organizations that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “pursuing the interest of a foreign power," similar to a Russian law used to discredit organizations critical of the government.
The Central Election Commission said Georgian Dream won about 54% of the vote in October.
Its leaders have rejected opposition claims of vote fraud. European election observers said the election took place in a “divisive” atmosphere marked by instances of bribery, double voting and physical violence.
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