Dozens of Georgian opposition have been arrested this evening after riot police broke up an opposition protest in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi. "This is a crime. Several opposition leaders have been injured after being hit by rubber bullets," he told television Nino Burdzhanadze, leader of the opposition People's Council (PC), an organization called the protests demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili .
Georgian police decided to intervene after the nearly 3,000 opponents who had gathered for several hours on Rustaveli Avenue, the main artery of the Georgian capital, refused to disperse. Several hundred riot troops and special forces police charged the demonstrators with batons, rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons from armored vehicles and fire trucks.
According to the Master TV channel, were injured and many opponents in the stretch of a hundred meters separating the Parliament of the Independence Square were traces of blood. "Now a new phase in our struggle. We will continue our opposition to the Georgian regime," said Burdzhanadze, former president of Parliament and former ally of President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Opponents had camped outside parliament to prevent the military parade will take place today on the occasion of Independence Day and many of them armed with sticks, took the podium from which the Georgian president will preside over the tribute. "Misha go already," shouted protesters Saakashili, in power since 2003.
The digital press had predicted that the authorities would resort to force to disperse the opposition, they only had permission to show up until midnight. "We will defend punches," said Burdzhanadze, whom the authorities accuse of being a Kremlin agent. Representatives Hall in the capital tried to persuade the opposition leaders, but, having failed, the authorities decided to suppress the protest after midnight.
Saakashvili's supporters had been advanced that the parade would take place regardless of protests from the opposition, which had warned of serious consequences if they violated the law and alter the public order. "Georgia is a democratic country and holding protest actions is a normal phenomenon if it satisfies the law.
Otherwise, the response will be consistent with existing law," said Nugzar Tsiklauri, head of the Diaspora Committee of Parliament, to the Russian news agency Interfax. Georgian opposition said Wednesday for the fifth consecutive day to demand the irrevocable resignation of Saakashvili, the main U.S.
ally in the Caucasus, which they accuse of authoritarianism. The CP has been reported that in recent days many activists from the opposition have been arrested or reprisals across the country. Meanwhile, the head of the Foreign Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, Akaki Minashvili, reported this week that Russia is behind the opposition protests.
On Saturday, Georgian police and charged against thousands of opponents who demanded the resignation of Saakashvili in the capital and in the city of Batumi and arrested about 300 protesters. Georgia has not fully recovered from the massive stability opposition protests in November 2007, which forced Saakashvili to declare a state of emergency.
Opposition parties accuse Saakashvili re-elected by fraud and to blame the defeat in the war against Russia for control of separatist South Ossetia, which would have prevented the entry of Georgia into NATO. 
Georgian police decided to intervene after the nearly 3,000 opponents who had gathered for several hours on Rustaveli Avenue, the main artery of the Georgian capital, refused to disperse. Several hundred riot troops and special forces police charged the demonstrators with batons, rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons from armored vehicles and fire trucks.
According to the Master TV channel, were injured and many opponents in the stretch of a hundred meters separating the Parliament of the Independence Square were traces of blood. "Now a new phase in our struggle. We will continue our opposition to the Georgian regime," said Burdzhanadze, former president of Parliament and former ally of President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Opponents had camped outside parliament to prevent the military parade will take place today on the occasion of Independence Day and many of them armed with sticks, took the podium from which the Georgian president will preside over the tribute. "Misha go already," shouted protesters Saakashili, in power since 2003.
The digital press had predicted that the authorities would resort to force to disperse the opposition, they only had permission to show up until midnight. "We will defend punches," said Burdzhanadze, whom the authorities accuse of being a Kremlin agent. Representatives Hall in the capital tried to persuade the opposition leaders, but, having failed, the authorities decided to suppress the protest after midnight.
Saakashvili's supporters had been advanced that the parade would take place regardless of protests from the opposition, which had warned of serious consequences if they violated the law and alter the public order. "Georgia is a democratic country and holding protest actions is a normal phenomenon if it satisfies the law.
Otherwise, the response will be consistent with existing law," said Nugzar Tsiklauri, head of the Diaspora Committee of Parliament, to the Russian news agency Interfax. Georgian opposition said Wednesday for the fifth consecutive day to demand the irrevocable resignation of Saakashvili, the main U.S.
ally in the Caucasus, which they accuse of authoritarianism. The CP has been reported that in recent days many activists from the opposition have been arrested or reprisals across the country. Meanwhile, the head of the Foreign Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, Akaki Minashvili, reported this week that Russia is behind the opposition protests.
On Saturday, Georgian police and charged against thousands of opponents who demanded the resignation of Saakashvili in the capital and in the city of Batumi and arrested about 300 protesters. Georgia has not fully recovered from the massive stability opposition protests in November 2007, which forced Saakashvili to declare a state of emergency.
Opposition parties accuse Saakashvili re-elected by fraud and to blame the defeat in the war against Russia for control of separatist South Ossetia, which would have prevented the entry of Georgia into NATO.
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