Friday, December 5, 2025

Police beat villagers for Norwegian hydro power in Georgia

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Seven hundred villagers clashed with two hundred police in Ghurta. (Video still from Adjara TV’s report.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia Saturday broke up a protest in a village where a Norwegian company wants to build a hydro power plant.

About two hundred policemen were mobilized to break through a road block put up by villagers in Ghurta, in the south western Adjara

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