Shame Movement

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Georgia

Shame Movement reverses decision to register as a foreign agent

by OC Media

•2 min read

On Saturday, following an onslaught of criticism, Shame Movement, a liberal group critical of the government, reversed its decision to register as a foreign agent in the new state database. The organisation released a nine-minute video on Friday, in which several of its members spoke about why they decided to register as foreign agents. The video was later removed after harsh criticism. In the video, Shame Movement members claimed that the fines imposed on foreign agents for disobeying th

Activist Zuka Berdzenishvili following the attack outside his home. Image via Salome Nikolaishvili.

Freedom of Assembly

Georgian activist beaten up hours after Speaker accuses him of ‘terrorising’ MPs

by OC Media

•2 min read

A Georgian activist has been beaten up in the streets of Tbilisi, less than an hour after the Speaker of Parliament publicly condemned him for criticising MPs in what the Speaker claimed was a ‘campaign of terror’. On Tuesday Zuka Berdzenishvili, an activist from the liberal Shame Movement, was attacked and subsequently hospitalised near his home. ‘They met me near the house, they hit me from behind, beat me, and ran’, Berdzenishvili wrote in a post on Facebook. He added that he required

Georgia

Home to Europe deadline passes as protests appear to stall

by Shota Kincha

•4 min read

Home to Europe, a platform of several civil society groups, held its third mass protest in Tbilisi on 3 July — the deadline of the ultimatum it had given the government to resign by. After camping outside the government offices, the leaders of the Shame Movement, one of the key groups within Home to Europe, announced the end of the protest. Shame claimed that they had ‘symbolically’ discomforted the government by preventing it from holding its cabinet meeting in the morning. Protestors cam

Georgia

Voice | They slapped me and called me a faggot: my experience with the Tbilisi police

by Giorgi Mzhavanadze

•8 min read

Giorgi Mzhavanadze, an activist and director of the Georgian liberal group the Shame Movement, was detained on 7 March in Tbilisi after organising an anti-government and pro-Ukraine demonstration outside the government offices in Tbilisi. After facing a ₾2,800 ($965) administrative fine for cursing at police officers and resisting arrest, a charge he denies, on 17 May he again ended up in the hands of the police, at the Ninth Police Department of Gldani-Nadzaladevi, Tbilisi. I want to tell

Protesters throw toilet paper at the government offices.. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

Georgia

Georgian police arrest 15 pro-Ukraine activists for TPing government offices

by Shota Kincha

•2 min read

The 12th round of daily anti-government and pro-Ukraine protests in Georgia ended with arrests after activists threw toilet paper on the Government Chancellery building, which was heavily guarded by police. On Monday night, police arrested 15 activists participating in the ‘No to Russia!’ protest outside the government headquarters in downtown Tbilisi. The five women who were among the detainees were released later that evening. Members of Shame, a liberal group critical of the Georgian gov

Thousands gathered outside parliament in Tbilisi on 26 February to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

Georgia

Third day of Ukraine protests in Georgia as debate continues on Government response

by Salome Khvedelidze

•2 min read

Thousands of people in Georgia have hit the streets for a third day to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as their own government’s lack of action. On Saturday, demonstrations took place in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, and Batumi. The demonstration in the capital, organised by the opposition and non-governmental groups, was followed by a concert ‘Voice from Georgia’, in which well-known Georgian musicians including Nino Katamadze and Nikoloz Rachveli performed. The Georgian Government has

Nodar Rukhadze protesting at the parliament. Still from video.

Georgia

Georgian activist arrested ‘for shouting anti-government slogans’

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•2 min read

A Georgian anti-government activist has been fined ₾2,000 ($600) after being arrested while shouting anti-government slogans outside parliament. Nodar Rukhadze, an activist from anti-government group the Shame Movement, was standing on the pavement outside the closed gates of parliament shouting into a megaphone when he was approached by a group of police officers and told to move. In a footage released by the Shame Movement, Rukhadze is seen shouting anti-government messages such as ‘sham