Georgia police arrested the leader of the opposition and pro-European Ahali party, Nika Gvaramiaduring a raid carried out at the formation’s headquarters in Tbilisi, the country’s capital, as tension increases after six consecutive days of protests against the government, accused of moving the country away from the path of European integration.
Gvaramia served as Minister of Education and Justice of Georgia under the government of former President Mijail Saakashviliwho is imprisoned for corruption and abuse of power after being arrested in 2021 following his return to the country from Ukraine.
Gvaramia himself asked the officers to stop the operation and demanded that he be allowed to enter the property. Shortly afterwards, after a brief altercation, was shaken and beatenhe therefore lost consciousness, according to information collected by the Netgazeti information portal.
Likewise, Gela Jasaia, member of the Girchi-Más Libertad party, was also arrested during this Wednesday as operations progress with the leaders of other opposition parties, such as the National Movement, Droa and Daitove.
Georgian President Salomé Zurabishvili denounced this fact on social networks and urged her partners to act “urgently” to prevent the country from falling into the “abyss”.
“I urgently call on our partners and all those who want to prevent the crisis from getting worse,” said Zurabishvili, who has insisted in recent weeks that He will not leave his post after the presidential elections on December 14 in response to the fraud she claims occurred during the last parliamentary elections.
“It is time to put strong pressure on the party of Government that is leading the country to the abyss! “Don’t be late!”, he asked in
The Georgian dream, Zurabishvili said, “deprives peaceful protesters of minimal protection. This is a blatant violation of the right to protest and an attack on private property.
These operations come as new demonstrations are taking place in the capital, where opponents of the government continue to demand new elections because they believe that the legislative elections at the end of October were organized in a fraudulent manner.
