Giorgi Vashadze, leader of Strategy Agmashenebeli opposition party, has called on demonstrators to besiege parliament building - broken windows, damaged police car
As a result of the violent actions, a patrol police car was damaged, being overturned by several demonstrators, and verbal abuse heard against law enforcement officers. Photo via 1TV.ge
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Giorgi Vashadze, the leader of the Strategy Agmashenebeli opposition party, on Wednesday called on the participants of the rally to besiege the Parliament building.
Broken windows, removed protective barriers, damaged police car - the situation outside the Parliament became “tense” after Vashadze had called on the participants of the rally to besiege the Parliament building.
The participants of the rally broke the windows of the Parliament building and threw stones at the law enforcement officers.
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The demonstrators also tried to remove the protective barriers outside the Parliament building and the police used water cannon to disperse them.
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As a result of the violent actions, a patrol police car was damaged, being overturned by several demonstrators, and verbal abuse heard against law enforcement officers.
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This is not the first case of damaging police vehicles by demonstrators. The similar events took place during Tuesday’s rally.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs on Wednesday released footage depicting the violence against the police by the participants of Tuesday’s rally.
The Georgian police on Wednesday said it had arrested 66 people for “petty hooliganism”, disobedience to law enforcement and throwing “Molotov cocktails and stones” at officers during a protest outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi after the legislative body gave its initial backing to a proposed bill on transparency of foreign influence in its first reading.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs said it had launched an investigation into the violent incidents that took place late on Tuesday as the protests involved citizens and opposition politicians protesting against the bill that involves registration of non-commercial legal entities and media outlets in the country as “agents of foreign influence” if they derive more than 20 percent of their income from abroad.
Appropriate legal assessment [by the Ministry] will be given to the actions of all persons who facilitated and organised the transformation of a peaceful protest into violent action”, the Ministry said.
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The statement also said the protest had “gone beyond the scope established by the law on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly” and had taken a “violent character”.
Those gathered near the Parliament building tried to block the entrances to the Parliament, but were prevented from doing so by police. Despite numerous calls for order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to protest in a peaceful manner [and] within the framework of the law, the participants of the rally continued their violent actions and did not obey the legal demands of the law enforcement officers”, it also added.
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Participants of the rally threw “stones, inflammable means, blunt objects” at law enforcement officers and “assaulted” police members, the Ministry added, noting they had also damaged and set fire to police vehicles.
The police were forced to consistently use proportional force and special means of coercion provided by the Law of Georgia on Police in order to restore public order and prevent violations, following the appropriate warning”, the state body said.
“Later, the demonstrators started an organised attack on the Parliament building, throwing Molotov cocktails and pyrotechnics, including in the direction of law enforcement officers”, it also noted.
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The Ministry said the demonstrators “set fire to the building” of the legislative body, broke windows and damaged the protective barriers, with about 50 employees of the Ministry injured in the incidents.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Wednesday called on citizens currently gathered in front of the Parliament building, who are protesting the approval of the transparency bill by the legislative body on Tuesday, to “remain within the legal framework of peaceful assembly".
Giorgi Vashadze, the Chair of the Strategy Agmashenebeli opposition party, called on the participants of the rally to besiege the Parliament building, who have been gathered to protest the adoption of the bill on transparency of foreign influence by the legislative body at the first hearing, the Public Broadcaster said on Wednesday.
The Georgian police detained ten more people for disobedience to law enforcement during a protest outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi after the legislative body gave its initial backing to a proposed bill on transparency of foreign influence in its first reading, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
The first hearing of the draft law on Registration of Foreign Agents, scheduled for tomorrow, will no longer be discussed at the plenary session of the Parliament, the local news agency Interpressnews said on Wednesday.
The ruling Georgian Dream party on Thursday said it was “unconditionally” withdrawing the controversial bill on transparency of foreign influence that was met by a backlash by domestic opposition, civil sector and diplomatic representations in the country, citing the interest of maintaining domestic “tranquillity”, the country’s development and its European integration aspirations as factors behind the decision.
Georgian police arrested 133 individuals during protests outside the Parliament in central Tbilisi on Tuesday and Wednesday against the controversial domestic bill on transparency of foreign influence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced on Thursday.
Georgia’s Special Investigation Service on Thursday announced it was investigating alleged instances of abuse of power by law enforcement officers during protests in central Tbilisi against the controversial domestic bill on transparency of foreign influence.
Khatuna Samnidze, an opposition MP and the Chair of the Republican Party, on Thursday called for suspension of public protest rallies over the bill on the transparency of foreign influence, after the legislative initiative was withdrawn by the ruling party.
Aleksandre Rakviashvili, an MP of the Girchi opposition party, on Thursday said the calls by Giorgi Vashadze, the Chair of the Strategy Agmashenebeli party, for demonstrators protesting the foreign influence transparency bill in Tbilisi on Wednesday to “besiege” the Parliament building had been “irresponsible”.
All individuals detained by police for administrative offences on Tuesday and Wednesday outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi during a protest against the bill on transparency of foreign influence [adopted by the legislative body in its first reading], have been released, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
Young demonstrators on Friday prevented Giorgi Vashadze, the head of the Strategy Agmashenebeli opposition party, from addressing the audience outside the Parliament in Tbilisi before they ended the rally against the now-shelved controversial bill on transparency of foreign influence.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Sunday expressed his gratitude towards Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri, his team and the Ministry’s Special Tasks Department, as well as police officers for “perfectly” planning and executing the dispersal of the rally outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi, during the protest after the legislative body gave its initial backing to a proposed bill on transparency of foreign influence in its first reading.
Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri on Friday said March protests in Tbilisi against the Bill on Transparency of Foreign Influence had “turned into violence” despite “numerous calls” from his office to protesters to act peacefully.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Friday thanked the country’s Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri and the police for “protecting the legislative body and maintaining public order” during March protests in Tbilisi against the bill on transparency of foreign influence.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday said he had “clearly confirmed” to country’s European and American “friends” that the ruling Georgian Dream party would not revert to the domestic bill on transparency of foreign influence, which it retracted from the Parliament voting following domestic and international backlash in March.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday claimed domestic “anarchist organisations” who he said had been affiliated with the “radical” United National Movement opposition had “used” and “made” the youth throw Molotov cocktails at police during March rallies in Tbilisi over the controversial foreign influence transparency bill.