23:48, 10 March 2025

Women-marchers join protests at Georgian Parliament

The participants of the women's march burned the bars at the Georgian Parliament. Screenshot of a photo taken by Mindia Gabadze for Publika on March 8, 2025 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1389788649087348&set=pcb.1389788782420668 the activities of the Meta Company, owning Facebook, are banned in Russia

The participants of the women's march in Tbilisi have demanded to release political prisoners, including the journalist, Mziya Amaglobeli. They have joined the protesters at the Georgian Parliament.

On March 7, the hundredth day of protests in Georgia, protests were held in Tbilisi, Batumi and Zugdidi. Demonstrators stated that they were ready to fight to the end. According to human rights defenders, at least 626 people were persecuted for taking part in protest actions.

On March 8, the culmination of the women's march in Tbilisi was the burning down of symbolic bars held at the Parliament. The main demand of the crowd was the immediate release of about 50 arrested critics of the authorities.

The protesters noted that for the first time Georgia has female political prisoners – Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the “Netgazeti” and “Batumelebi” outlets, who became a “victim of the authoritarian regime and a symbol of the fight for freedom,” The “Publika” outlet reports.

The activists also held posters demanding the release of the journalists arrested in Azerbaijan.

On January 12 this year, ten persons were detained in Batumi, including Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the above independent media outlets that worked under the Georgian Government. The reason for her detention was in a poster calling for a general strike, which she had pasted on the wall. After her release, Amaglobeli found herself in a crush, where an incident occurred involving Irakli Dgebuadze, the Chief of Batumi Police. After that, the journalist was detained for attacking a law enforcer.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 8, 2025 at 11:27 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot