‘When we get in the minibus, the fun will start’ — How Georgian police torture detained protesters

Over 450 protesters have been detained during the two weeks of mass protests against the halting of Georgia’s EU membership bid. According to local civil society organisations and the Public Defender’s Office, the vast majority of detainees have experienced violence at the hands of the police. Lazare Maglakelidze, a 20-year-old third-year student at Sapienza University in Rome, came to Georgia in the summer with the intention of staying through the October parliamentary elections as an obse