3 week agoGeorgian Dream has voted to approve the powers of all 150 MPs. However, the president, opposition, and CSOs have declared this action unconstitutional. Protest continues outside the parliament of Georgia
3 week agoChitadze Street, another adjacent to the Parliament, is blocked by heavy police, allowing Georgian Dream members to enter while avoiding protesters opposing the election results, which they deem illegitimate
3 week agoPolice are blocking the side streets around the Georgian parliament building to prevent protesters from surrounding it. Riot police are deployed nearby as well as on Freedom Square
3 week agoCrowds of protesters outside Georgia parliament. Some spent the night here. At 1200 local the parliament will convene only with deputies of the ruling Georgian Dream. Protesters citing vote rigging say the parliament is illegitimate
3 week agoIrakli Kobakhidze nominated Maka Bochorishvili as "Minister of Foreign Affairs", Anri Okhanashvili as "Minister of Justice", and Davit Songulashvili as "Minister of Agriculture". All had voted in favor of adopting Russian law on foreign agents
3 week agoFull mobilization of police forces at the Liberty Square, including water cannons
3 week agoCurrently, on Rustaveli Avenue, citizens are preparing to stay overnight. The first session of Parliament is set to take place tomorrow at 12:00 PM
3 week agoProtesters are gathering on Rustaveli outside parliament where GD plans to hold first session tomorrow. Police is guarding entrances of the building
3 week agoCitizens have gathered at Republic Square. Some plan to spend the night there and protest in front of Parliament tomorrow morning. It's currently around 22:10 in Tbilisi, and the police are preventing the protest convoy from moving from Republic Square to Rustaveli ave
3 week agoA convoy of cars from western Georgia is seen entering Tbilisi, where protesters plan stage an overnight protest around Parliament ahead of tomorrow’s inaugural session. None of the four opposition blocks that cleared the 5% threshold recognize the CEC results
3 week agoProtests ahead of the first parliamentary session have begun in Tbilisi, with people arriving from the regions and vehicles blocking the main avenue
3 week agoProtesters started marching towards the Georgian parliament building from the First Republic Square
The women’s march against Georgia’s rigged elections is moving from Tbilisi’s Freedom Square to Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili’s business centre. Protesters are carrying suitcases labelled: ‘I won’t leave, you should,’ symbolising defiance against forced migration
3 week agoOpposition announced protest at 9pm tomorrow, they said people will come from regions too, they will spend the night to be outside parliament from early morning for GD's first gathering at a parliament for the first session after election
3 week agoProtests in Batumi demand new elections
3 week agoProtest against the rigged elections in Batumi, Georgia
The protests in Georgia continue. Today in Batumi, near the State University, students are protesting against election fraud.The country's president, Salome Zurabishvili, and the opposition do not recognize the results of the October 26 Georgian parliamentary elections
3 week agoProtest against the rigged elections in Georgia Demonstrators blocked the main transport highway in Tbilisi
3 week agoHeroes Square, the main traffic artery in Tbilisi, is set to be blocked until 22:00 PM
3 week agoAn opposition demonstration ‘in solidarity with students’ is currently blocking Tbilisi’s major intersection, Heroes Square. The leaders have announced they will maintain the blockade until 22:00, and protesters are currently setting up tents on-site
Protest continues at Tbilisi State University, where students remain camped, with a series of rallies and public lectures. The situation is similar at Ilia State University, another major academic institution in Tbilisi, and at several other universities across Georgia
Students who entered the Tbilisi State University building also announced public lecture in civic disobedience and boycott today at 12:00, noon. Auditorium number 023
3 week agoLarge number of police deployed in Tbilisi to disperse protesters tonight
3 week ago“We won’t let Georgian Dream into Parliament. Get ready to fight” — protesters are leaving a message for their fellow Georgians
3 week agoPeaceful demonstrators brought tents to the main intersection of Tbilisi. The protest against the rigged elections continues. Photo: Gela Khasaia
3 week agoTents have been set up again at the protest site near Tbilisi State University as the rally continues. Video: Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, where a meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan began
3 week agoProtesters kicked out pro-government Imedi TV journalists from the rally
Protesters have pushed back police lines and reclaimed the area in front of Tbilisi State University, which was cleared by police in the morning
Size of the protest crowd in Tbilisi right now
