Georgia
Six arrested at protest against power line in Pasanauri
Locals gathered to protest against the construction of a power transmission line in Khando Gorge, Pasanauri, north-eastern Georgia on 10 May. Six were arrested for ‘disobeying police’. Roughly 150 people gathered in the village of Khando to block the construction work. Protesters later blocked the main road in Pasanauri, after which police arrested six of them for ‘disobedience’. ‘We are tired of peaceful actions’, Liberali magazine quoted a local protester. Georgia’s deputy Minister
