Georgia's main opposition leader, Nika Gvaramia, was detained during protests against the government's decision to suspend talks for Georgia's EU membership. The ongoing demonstrations, now in their seventh night, highlight the deepening political crisis in the country.
The leader of Georgia 's main political opposition has been detained in an altercation with police during ongoing protests against the government.
The string of protests caused a halt to the long-standing national goal of joining the EU and prompted a police crackdown. The arrests came as thousands of pro-EU protesters gathered, facing off against a large deployment of riot police who used water cannon and gas to break up previous gatherings. Georgian officials have repeatedly accused opposition protesters of plotting a revolution along the lines of Ukraine's 2014 Maidan protests, which ousted a pro-Russian president.
Salome Zourabichvili, the country's pro-EU president who has become a voice of the protest movement, wrote on X on Wednesday: "My urgent call to our partners and those who want to prevent crisis to go deeper.
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