Tbilisi: Protest against the LGBT parade planned in the capital of Georgia changed with violence on Monday when the demonstrators attacked and injured around 20 journalists including the event.
March’s Tbilisi organizers for dignity that will occur at night cancel the event, by saying the authorities did not provide adequate security guarantees.
Opponent in March was blocked from the main avenue, condemning journalists which included protests as pro-LGBT propagandists, and threw sticks and bottles to the medium of workers.
About 20 injured journalists.
A man identified by several news reports as journalists for unfifted foreign news outlets stabbed a few blocks of demonstrations; A suspect was arrested.
Hostility towards a strong sex minority in Georgia.
The Pride Tbilisi group who tried to regulate the parade said in a statement Monday that March opponents were supported by the government and by the Georgia Orthodox Church.
The open Caucasus media group published a photo of a man he said was a local TV journalist who was derived from a demonstration in Headlock by an Orthodox Imam.
President of Salome Zurabishvili condemned the violence, but Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili accused the parade organized by the power of “radical opposition” led by former President Mikheil Saakashvili who was exiled.
Journalists attacked, injured in Georgia’s anti-LGBT protest
