Participants of daily protests have come to the Georgian parliament for the 269th day in a row

Pro-European protests in Georgia continue for the 269th day in a row, today activists, as they do every night, blocked Rustaveli Avenue in the center of Tbilisi.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel", on August 21, the 267th day of continuous protests, a mass march in support of independent online media took place in Tbilisi under the slogan: "The light must not go out." The fifth president of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, joined the action. On August 22, activists in Tbilisi for the 268th day in a row blocked Rustaveli Avenue, demanding the release of political prisoners and the appointment of new parliamentary elections.

On the 269th day of continuous protests, protesters blocked traffic along Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi near the Georgian Parliament building. They are demanding the appointment of parliamentary elections and the release of demonstrators arrested during the protests, Publika reports.

Family members and activists of prisoners of conscience today distributed newspapers in which they print letters from political prisoners in the Imereti region. In particular, today they visited Terzhola, where Onise Tskhadadze's family lives, the publication said in another publication.

Recall that on April 2, the Tbilisi City Court began considering the case of 11 people detained at the scene of the protests. The defendants - actor Andro Chichinadze, stand-up comedian Onise Tskhadadze, as well as Guram Mirtskhulava, Luka Jabua, Jano Archaya, Valeri Tetreshvili, Giorgi Terishvili, Irakli Kerashvili, Revaz Kiknadze, Ruslan Sivakov and Sergei Kukharchuk - did not admit guilt and insist that they did not know each other before their arrest in the case of group violence at protests (Part 2 of Article 225 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which provides for up to six years in prison). On August 1, the court extended their arrest

On November 28, 2024, the European Parliament refused to recognize the results of the parliamentary elections in Georgia and called for sanctions against the leaders of the Georgian Dream. On the same day, the Prime Minister announced that Georgia would refuse to negotiate accession to the European Union until the end of 2028. Following this statement, protests began in the country.

The "Caucasian Knot" collected materials about the parliamentary elections and the protests that followed them on the page "Elections in Georgia-2024".

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