(30 Nov 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tbilisi, Georgia – 1 December 2024
1. Wide of street and fireworks being thrown
2. Ambulance passing protesters, fireworks being thrown
3. Pan from Georgian and EU flags to protesters
4. Wide of street and fireworks and crowd
STORYLINE:
Tear gas and fireworks were fired as protesters gathered across Georgia on Saturday night in a third straight night of demonstrations against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union.
More than 100 demonstrators were arrested on Friday night as crowds clashed with police, the country’s Interior Ministry said.
The Associated Press saw protesters in Tbilisi being chased and beaten by police as demonstrators rallied in front of the country’s parliament building.
On the same night, police also used heavy force against members of the media and deployed water cannons to push protesters back along the capital’s central boulevard, Rustaveli Avenue.
The ruling Georgian Dream party’s disputed victory in the country’s Oct. 26 parliamentary election, which was widely seen as a referendum on Georgia’s aspirations to join the European Union, has sparked major demonstrations and led to an opposition boycott of the parliament.
The opposition has said that the vote was rigged with the help of Russia, Georgia’s former imperial master, with Moscow hoping to keep Tbilisi in its orbit.
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