Tbilisi, May 1 (UNI) Levan Khabeishvili, the leader of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's opposition party United National Movement, has been detained at a demonstration against a bill on foreign agents in central Tbilisi, Georgian broadcaster Formula News reported on Wednesday. The broadcaster reported that the opposition politician had been severely beaten by riot police
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The ruling Georgian Dream party staged a massive rally in Tbilisi on April 29, with tens of thousands of people bussed in from around the country to support the country's democratic backsliding. Party leaders, including Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze, and Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the party and the country's richest man, gave a series of speeches marked by anti-Western rhetoric and conspiracy theories. The rally coincided with a parliamentary committee's approval of the controversial foreign agents bill, which is set to pass the second reading later this week.
Officials from the Georgian government issued mixed reactions in response to the Nov. 6 Russian attack on civilians near the occupied territory of South Ossetia that left one man dead and another kidnapped, Georgian media reported on Nov. 7.
Locals jeered at Russian passengers on a cruise ship in Batumi, Georgia, on two occasions.The ship departed earlier than scheduled on Thursday and later returned