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2019 Gavrilov’s Night Protests

Voice | ‘What I hate the most is the injustice of it’

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•8 min read

Mako Gomuri, 20, a student and a supermarket cashier, is one of several people to lose an eye on 20 June during anti-Russia protests in Tbilisi. As the situation was escalating, she spent the entire day working, disconnected from the events unfolding outside. This is a partner post that originally appeared on ON.ge on 25 July 2019. ‘I left work around midnight. I work on Marjanishvili Street, but I didn’t hear anything from there. When we closed at night and I took out my phone, only th

2019 Gavrilov’s Night Protests

5 violations by police during the Tbilisi clash

by OC Media

•8 min read

Hundreds were hospitalised after police and protesters clashed on 20–21 June, and questions remain over the actions of the police. Despite an investigation into violence by police being opened, no officer has yet been charged. On 20–21 June, protesters clashed with riot police throughout the night in Tbilisi as they attempted to occupy the parliament building. The protesters were angry that a Russian MP was invited to address the Georgian Parliament. [Read more: Thousands clash with polic

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16–18 May 2013: the days of human tragedies

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•12 min read

On 17 May 2013, International Day Against Homophobia, a small group of around 50 queer rights activists were confronted in Tbilisi by thousands of counter-demonstrators led by Georgian Orthodox priests. Demonstrators carried posters with homophobic messages such as: ‘We don’t need Sodom and Gomorrah in Georgia’. The crowds, some carrying nettles to beat queer rights activists with, broke through police lines to attack the activists. Police were forced to evacuate the small number of activists