Friday, December 5, 2025

19 detained in Tbilisi as protests resume in wake of controversial teen murder investigation

TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of Georgia’s largest opposition party UNM was among 19 people detained on Monday as street protests resumed against a murder investigation.

Authorities came down hard on organizers as the rallies resumed Monday as a deadline set by protesters

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Groups demand investigation into how anti-terror forces killed 19-year-old

Groups rallied outside the government building. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The death of a young Chechen man who was shot in an anti-terror operation last month has sparked an outcry among locals in the Muslim-inhabited region he came from, while activists in Tbilisi rallied outside the government building.

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