21:31, 24 January 2025

Tbilisi marchers demand to release detainees

A march in Tbilisi. January 25, 2025. Photo: Tabula https://t.me/Tbilisi_life/36401

Students and teachers from two higher schools have marched through the streets of Tbilisi demanding the release of those detained during protests.

Law enforcers were violently dispersing the protest actions, by using tear gas and water cannons; they detained protesters. By December 9, 2024, more than 400 people had been detained during the protests.

In Tbilisi, students and teachers from the Free and Agrarian Universities have held a march demanding to release all those detained during the protest actions. They carried flags of Georgia and the European Union (EU), the “Interpressnews” has reported. According to marchers, the aim of the action in the direction to TV companies was to persuade them to "cover the truth."

Let us remind you that at night on January 12, ten persons were detained in Batumi, including Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the “Netgazeti” and “Batumelebi” outlets. She was detained for her poster calling for a strike, which she had pasted on the wall. Ms Amaglobeli has explained that when she was released, she found herself in a crush and, while trying to get out, accidentally touched Irakli Dgebuadze, the Batumi police chief, with her hand. On January 13, she was charged with assaulting a police officer; Amaglobeli faces up to seven years in jail. On January 20, it became known that Mziya Amaglobeli had declared a hunger strike.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 25, 2025 at 04:57 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot