Half a hundred police officers are injured in clashes with protesters
March 8 () –
At least 66 demonstrators have been detained in a series of protests registered before the Georgian Parliament, in Tbilisi, against the foreign agents bill, as reported this Wednesday by the country’s Ministry of the Interior, which has also counted half Hundreds of police officers injured so far.
All of them, considered opponents of the Georgian government, have been accused of public disorder and disobedience to the authorities for not following the guidelines of the agents deployed to quell the demonstrations that took place on Tuesday in the capital.
Thus, they have gone to court after the relevant administrative cases have been opened, according to information from the Mtavari television channel. In addition, the Ministry of the Interior has launched an investigation for causing disturbances and causing “violent incidents”, according to the Penal Code.
“The Ministry will give appropriate legal advice to those detained for causing a peaceful protest to turn into a violent one,” the government said in a statement confirming that 50 members of the security forces have been injured at the hands of the demonstrators, some of whom are hospitalized.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest a bill that seeks to create a ‘blacklist’ of organizations, the media and entities that generally receive funding from foreign countries, a measure that many have criticized as being of “Russian-style” legislation that will end up undermining the fundamental freedoms of citizens.
