Pro-European protests in Georgia have continued for 425 days without interruption.

For the 425th consecutive day, supporters of Georgia's European integration gathered outside the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue, demanding the release of all those arrested for participating in the demonstrations.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 25, the 424th day of daily protests, participants in Tbilisi read the poems of poet Mikhe Khelashvili, a participant in the movement against the Sovietization of Georgia who was killed 101 years ago. Despite Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's December 2024 statement that there would be no demonstrations by January 20, 2025, protests continue daily. Activists with flags and protest banners once again gathered today outside the Georgian Parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue, where police had been mobilized in advance. The protesters issued their unchanged demands: new parliamentary elections and the release of political prisoners arrested in connection with their participation in the demonstrations. They also demanded the repeal of legislative amendments that restrict freedom of expression, Interpressnews reports.

This is the 425th consecutive evening of protest on Rustaveli Avenue, Publika reports.

A regular participant in pro-European demonstrations, 69-year-old Marine Zhvania, was charged by police with blocking a sidewalk during the December 17 rally and faces up to 15 days in jail. A representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs showed a video recording in court of several passersby near the parliament who crossed the dividing line and claimed that Zhvania had prevented them from moving along the sidewalk. He also acknowledged that the identities of these citizens had not been established and that they themselves had not reported any violation of their rights to free passage on the sidewalk.

“Until the regime’s prisoners are released and until new free elections are held in the country, I will walk along Rustaveli Avenue and stand on the sidewalk every day,” Netgazeti quotes Marine Zhvania as saying.

The “Caucasian Knot” also wrote that on January 23, a court in Tbilisi sentenced administrative arrests to five activists charged with an administrative offense for standing on the sidewalk after the December 2025 protests. In addition, at least eight regular participants in protests on Rustaveli Avenue—including doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili and Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov—are at risk of criminal prosecution for repeatedly blocking the sidewalk.

Protesters in Georgia have been demanding new parliamentary elections and the release of political prisoners since November 28, 2024. Security forces violently dispersed the protests, using tear gas and water cannons, and detained protesters. Over 1,000 people were subjected to administrative prosecution during the protests. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report, "Key Points to the Persecution of Protesters in Georgia".