Masked police also used water cannon and stun grenades against rally protesting over legislation viewed as authoritarian and Russian-inspired
Western politicians and diplomats have called for a halt to escalating violence in Georgia, after security forces used water cannon, teargas, stun grenades and rubber bullets overnight to break up a peaceful rally against a “foreign influence” bill. The EU, which has granted Georgia candidate status, on Wednesday “strongly condemned” the violence and called on the government to respect the right of peaceful assembly.
“Use of force to suppress it is unacceptable,” the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said on X. Police detained 63 protesters in the capital, Tbilisi, and six officers were injured, the country’s interior ministry said, as authorities sharply escalated their crackdown on the three-week-old protest movement on Tuesday night.
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