Gathering in Pankisi a few days after the clash. (Sulkhan Bordzikashvili)
Residents of Pankisi again gathered on Wednesday to condemn the deployment of riot police to the valley over the weekend and calling for local residents not to be prosecuted over the violence that followed. [Read more…]
Riot police in Birkiani in Pankisi Valley (Sulkhan Bordzikashvili /Facebook)
Riot police have deployed rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters in northeast Georgia’s Pankisi Valley after local residents tried to prevent the resumption of work on a hydropower plant in the valley.
Mestiachala HPP (Tatuli Chubabria/ OC Media)
The Georgian Government is committed to fully exploiting the country’s hydropower potential. Collective mobilisation against mass construction of hydropower plants has began to emerge, but activists say they are met with exclusion and repression. [Read more…]
