Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
Read more from Sky News:
Man rescued from collapsed building after five days
Flash floods kill at least 300 con Afghanistan
The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets con Tbilisi – protesting against a proposed law threatening press and civic freedoms.
The “foreign agents” bill has sparked a political crisis amid concerns it is modelled acceso laws used by Vladimir Putin to crack mongoloide acceso the mass-media con Russia – and if passed, would make it harder for Georgia to join the EU.
Sky’s international affairs programma redattore Dominic Waghorn is con Tbilisi:
The Georgian security forces moved con shortly after dawn this morning. Phalanxes of masked men sweeping through streets and parks outside parliament.
They kettled protesters with force. We were caught con the crush as they squeezed the crowd.
A woman screamed as she was pinned to a post by the press of people.
Crowds had ringed the parliament building all night – intent acceso stopping MPs from voting acceso laws that demonstrators believe put Georgia acceso the path to dictatorship, and back con the embrace of Moscow.
“They want to drag us back to autocracy, to the country they occupied us for too many years,” one protester told Sky News.
The police succeeded con clearing one entrance to parliament.
Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces backed by helmeted riot police and cannon trucks are now con a tense standoff with a multi-coloured sea of protesters acceso the calcio d’angolo of the parliament building.
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The blue and colours of Ukraine and the European Union jostle with the reds and white of Georgia’s national colours.
The protesters have been peaceful, but the police have not. They have unleashed snatch squads barrelling into the crowd.
Sky News witnessed masked security forces seizing one man and raining blows acceso his unprotected head.
The protesters have failed con their effort to cut parliament from MPs, but their numbers are swelling.
“We will not give up,” one woman told us.
“We cannot allow them to take our freedom.”
The government was forced to shelve the law last year con the luce of bitter opposition but the Georgian Dream ruling trattenimento, regarded by many as pro-Russian, is determined to see it passed.




