Andreas Oetker-Kast

YouTube video by BBC World Service Did Georgian police use a chemical weapon against protesters? - BBC World Service Documentaries

Here's the direct link to the BBC documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-k...

BBC suggests Georgia used WWI-era chemical on protesters, sparking SSG probe Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) launched an investigation into the documentary on two charges.

A BBC documentary released Monday alleged that a WW1-era toxic agent was used against protesters in Georgia last winter, prompting opposition outrage and government backlash. The State Security Service has opened an investigation into the claims.

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🇬🇪When the foreign minister of an EU member state feels compelled to reassure the mayor of Tbilisi that Europe must never sanction Georgian Dream’s leaders, it tells you everything about what the regime fears most.
Not elections. Not protests.
Its personal sanctions.

Yesterday, #GeorgiaProtests in Hamburg, raising awareness for what‘s going on in 🇬🇪 …

In Photos | 365 days of consecutive protest in Georgia It has been a year since Georgian Dream announced its EU u-turn, prompting mass protests — OC Media has captured it all.

One year of protests in Georgia in my photos. It was very emotional putting this together, it's been a difficult year.
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In Photos | 365 days of consecutive protest in Georgia It has been a year since Georgian Dream announced its EU u-turn, prompting mass protests — OC Media has captured it all.

📸 In Photos: 365 days of consecutive protest in Georgia

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Georgia Still PROTESTS!

Day 366

#GeorgiaProtests

“Slava Ukraini!”
A chant that echoes through the #GeorgiaProtests every single night.

Day 352 of uninterrupted protests.

Last night, #344 of continuous #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪

🇬🇪 Day #340 of continuing #GeorgiaProtests

🇬🇪 Day 338 of continuing #GeorgiaProtests …

Georgians mark anniversary of the 2024 disputed elections with march in central Tbilisi Georgian Dream extended its rule by four years in the disputed elections.

On Sunday, thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched through central Tbilisi to mark the anniversary of the disputed 2024 parliamentary elections, through which the ruling Georgian Dream party retained power.

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Yesterday in Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 - big demonstration against the current administration, exactly one year after the rigged elections of October 2024.
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#GeorgiaProtests

„My voice, my right“ - Yesterday in Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 - big demonstration against the current administration, exactly one year after the rigged elections of October 2024.
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#GeorgiaProtests

Day 331 of #GeorgiaProtests …
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#Tbilisi #georgia #sakartvelo🇬🇪 #georgien #tiflis

Back at my favorite spot for morning coffee in Tbilisi …
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#Georgia #sakartvelo🇬🇪 #georgien #tbilisi

Opinion: "Georgia needs new and convincing vision for change” Tamta Mikeladze: "Under the unprecedented use of violence by Georgian Dream, opposition forces could be irreversibly weakened."

Good analysis of Tamta Mikeladze on the situation in Georgia.

Georgia is on a tipping point

"We are approaching a point where the remaining levers available to the opposition will be completely neutralized, and the balance of power will become too unequal."
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Between frustration and persistence, the Georgian protest movement reflects on 4 October After the unfulfilled ‘peaceful revolution’ of 4 October, Georgia’s anti-government movement continues amidst debate, repression, and uncertainty.

🇬🇪 … between frustration and persistence …

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⭕️ Georgia’s imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli jointly shortlisted for the 2025 Sakharov Prize together with Belarus’s Andrzej Poczobut. (1/2)

#FreeMzia #GeorgiaProtests #RepressionInGeorgia #TerrorInGeorgia #JournalismIsNotACrime #Sakharov

Finnish Foreign Minister and OSCE head Elina Valtonen has been fined $1,800 by Georgian authorities for 'blocking the road' after visiting protesters in Tbilisi.

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Georgian Dream to seek political bans for ‘several hundred’ individuals The ruling party is expanding its previously announced intentions to ban opposition parties.

Democracy at work … or, what was the word?

#GeorgiaProtests

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1/ Irakli Kobakhidze Threatens Participants of the Daily Protest Outside Parliament Speaking on the pro-government channel Rustavi 2, Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said there would be “zero compassion.”

Despite the authorities promise to regard any further protests as a ‘continuation of yesterday’s attempt’, insinuating further arrests, protesters in Tbilisi have blocked the road near the Georgian Parliament, the traditional site of the ongoing daily anti-government protests.

Day 312 … and counting.

Summary of the events of October 4, for those interested.

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Good read about what happened in 🇬🇪 in the last 24h …

"They have, they reassure themselves, democratic traditions that go way back and institutions in place to guard against encroachments on their freedoms. “We will,” they might say, “never be a Georgia.” They would be wrong."

"In my circle of friends and colleagues, we joke about the books we will read in prison or about the Ubers we might soon be driving in Berlin or New York.
Maybe people in those cities, even now, look at Georgia and say “that could never happen to us.”

A Message from a Budding Autocracy - Coda Story A closer look at Georgia's spiral into autocracy under Bidzina Ivanishvili serves as a warning for countries who think they are safe.

Giorgi Lomsadze, @codastory.bsky.social Perspective:

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🗳️ The lowest voter turnout in Georgia’s municipal election history. The regime wanted a referendum on its legitimacy?
The people have spoken - with silence.