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🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests

Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 9h

Ia Darakhvelidze, an art director who has served at several prominent creative agencies in Georgia, has also been detained tonight.

She's one of 44 people arrested in the past days in connection with the Oct 4 protest.

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 9h

Ia Darakhvelidze, an art director who has served at several prominent creative agencies in Georgia, has also been detained tonight.

She's one of 44 people arrested in the past days in connection with the Oct 4 protest.

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 9h

#GeorgiaProtests Day 316! 🇬🇪🇪🇺

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · Mar 12

Freedom for the regime prisoners!

Down with the regime!

🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests Until the end!

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Tamta Natchkebia @tamtanatch.bsky.social · 10h

Just take a look - who’s being arrested? Vulnerable people who only wanted and hoped for a better country and a better future.

Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 10h

🧵 1/ THREAD: The Georgian Dream’s Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested 39 people for participating in the October 4 rally. On October 8, 13 of those arrested were remanded in custody.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 10h

🧵 1/ THREAD: The Georgian Dream’s Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested 39 people for participating in the October 4 rally. On October 8, 13 of those arrested were remanded in custody.

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 10h

The Georgian Dream regime has arrested 72-year-old academic and pediatrician Prof. Gogi Chakhunashvili — the father of active protester Konstantine Chakhunashvili.

The total number of people arrested over the Oct 4 protests has now risen to 44.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 11h

⭕This is how the 71-year-old pediatrician Giorgi Chakhunashvili was arrested at his home by Georgian Dream police. The MIA of Georgia arrested 8 more people today in connection with the October 4th protest case.

Video: Levan Zazadze

#TerrorinGeorgia

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 11h

The MIA of Georgia arrested 8 more people in connection with the October 4th protest case. The total number of detainees has reached 44. The MIA stated that 4 individuals are fugitives. One of those arrested is 71 y/o pediatrician Giorgi Chakhunashvili.

#TerrorinGeorgia

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Tamar (Tako) Tolordava @takotolordava.bsky.social · 11h

72-year-old doctor George Chakhunashvili was arrested a few minutes ago, allegedly in connection with the October 4 protest. Activists gathered in front of his apartment, chanting, "Doctors in prison, murderers outside".

#Tbilisiprotests
#Georgiaprotests
#TerrorinGeorgia

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 12h

"Side by Side" — Protests continue. Day 316.

#GeorgiaProtests

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 13h

Rustaveli Avenue is blocked for the 316th night in a row. ✅

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 13h

"Freedom to the prisoners of the regime!"

Georgia, a country of less than 4 million, now has 100+ political prisoners.

Day 316 of uninterrupted, nationwide #GeorgiaProtests.

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 13h

Day 316 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia. Protesters are marching towards Rustaveli Avenue. 🇬🇪

“Freedom for Zviad Ratiani,” they chant — referring to the renowned Georgian poet sentenced to two years in prison today.

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Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 13h

🔴 Georgia’s imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been named one of the 2025 World Press Freedom Heroes.

#FreeMzia
#JournalismIsNotACrime

International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 15h

📣 IPI is proud to announce our 2025 World Press Freedom Heroes, who have all displayed tremendous courage and resilience in the fight for free media.

🇬🇪 Mzia Amaglobeli
🇺🇸 Martin Baron
🇵🇸 Mariam Abu Dagga
🇵🇪 Gustavo Gorriti
🇭🇰 Jimmy Lai
🇺🇦 Victoria Roshchyna
🇪🇹 Tesfalem Waldyes

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Tamar (Tako) Tolordava @takotolordava.bsky.social · 15h

Information about recently detained people:
Two of them have caner - one of them is already in stage three. Three are living on the breadline in conditions of extreme poverty. One of them told the lawyer that he had lived through such hardships. How could prison possibly be worse?

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 15h

A frind of mine and exceptional Georgian poet Zviad Ratiani was sentenced to two years in prison after slapping a police officer in solidarity with the political prisoner and journalist Mzia Amaglobeli.
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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · Jun 23

The prominent poet and a friend of mine Zviad Ratiani was arrested at the rally near the Parliament - presumably under criminal law

Day 2️⃣0️⃣8️⃣
#GeorgiaProtests

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 16h

On his birthday, July 15 Bachiashvili was brutally beaten in his cell. Gldani Prison Chief, Davit Gogoberishvili and another senior official in the Penitentiary Department, Gia (Giorgi) Kemoklidze have resigned following the incident. 7/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 16h

He was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Last week, his elderly parents have been sentenced to prison too. Prosecutors accuse them of laundering money together with their son — the case is tied to Bachiashvili’s financial dispute with Ivanishvili. 6/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 16h

He was kidnapped on May 24, got blidnfolded, and for two days, he was transported like that. After that, he was forcibly put on an Airzena Bombardier plane and brought to Georgia. The SSS claimed an anonymous tip led to his arrest. 5/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 16h

Bachiashvili fled Georgia on March 4, stating he used “black holes in the system” to escape an 11-year sentence tied to a legal battle with Ivanishvili over ~9,000 bitcoins. 4/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 16h

The SSS claims that Giorgi Kemoklidze attempted to stage or imitate the assault on Giorgi Bachiashvili. 3/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday, ex-director Gogoberishvili was found dead. Investigators are treating the case as an apparent suicide. 2/

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: State Security Service has arrested Giorgi Kemoklidze, a former senior official of the Penitentiary Department. Kemoklidze resigned together with ex-director of Gldani Prison, David Gogoberishvili, following the prison beating of Giorgi Bachiashvili — Ivanishvili’s former business aide. 1/

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Eugénia 🇵🇹🇲🇫🇺🇦🇬🇪🇪🇺🇮🇱 @tugatripeira.bsky.social · 1d

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT #GEÓRGIA 🇬🇪 🇪🇺

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT #GEÓRGIA 🇬🇪 🇪🇺

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT #GEÓRGIA 🇬🇪 🇪🇺

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 17h

#GeorgiaProtests ✊

Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 23h

🇬🇪🤍🇺🇸 “We extend our unwavering, bipartisan support to the Georgian people who simply wish to claim their right to self-determination.”

www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/re...

Ranking Member Shaheen, Chairman Risch Statement on Deteriorating Political Situation in Georgia | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,...

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