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Events of Share this via Facebook Share this via Bluesky Share this via X Share this via WhatsApp Share this via Email More sharing options Share this via LinkedIn Share this via Reddit Share this via Telegram Share this via Printer. Political tensions and sustained protests over electoral reforms marked in Georgia. The government used excessive force to disperse a largely nonviolent protest in June, detaining and injuring scores, and pursuing largely one-sided accountability for it.

Yesterday, a group of more than 1, people demonstrating against a planned LGBT Pride rally in Tbilisi, the capital, attacked dozens of journalists covering the event, as well as event organizers, according to multiple news reports and Natia Zambakhidze, head of the Georgia bureau of the U. Those demonstrators proceeded to attack at least 55 people, including 53 members of the press, according to a statement by the Georgian Interior Ministry, which said that police were investigating those attacks. CPJ was unable to immediately confirm the identifies of the 53 journalists reported by the Interior Ministry to have been attacked at the rally or the nature of their injuries. A group of about 50 people confronted Mandaria and Koridze, and one man punched Mandaria in the face and another pushed Koridze to the ground and kicked him in the head, Mandaria said.

James Jackson meets some of the key players. Nata Talikishvili never wanted to be a comedian. With a career that ranges from sex worker to club bouncer, Talikishvili uses her acerbic humour to expose society's hypocrisy, telling true stories that make light of her own difficult experiences as a trans woman in the transphobic culture of Georgia. She turns up to her interview with BBC Culture an hour late, waving a fan coquettishly, and her comic talent oozes out to such an extent that the translator keeps bursting into laughter during our conversation.

Manifestantes atacam carrinhas em que seguiam defensores dos direitos dos homossexuais. Pela primeira vez, as autoridades locais tinham permitido a realização de uma manifestação anti-homofobia, promovida pela organização não-governamental, Identidade, mas, na ausência de condições de segurança, o protesto foi transferido para um jardim público. A polícia montou um cordão de segurança no novo local que os manifestantes anti-gays, em fúria, liderados por padres da Igreja Ortodoxa, acabaram por romper agredindo ou mesmo apedrejando todos aqueles que assinalavam mais um Dia Internacional Contra a Homofobia. A polícia acabou por retirar do local os defensores dos direitos dos homossexuais em carrinhas, que os homofóbicos também as atacaram.