The international human rights organization demands that the Georgian authorities conduct an investigation and hold those responsible for violence against peaceful protesters accountable. The bloody regime of Ivanishvili remains in power only through brutal crackdowns on protests, mass arrests, and the abuse of detainees in prisons. These perpetrators belong in the dock of the International Tribunal!

The international human rights organization HRW (Human Rights Watch) published a report titled "Georgia: Police Brutality Against Protesters" demanding immediate and effective investigations into and accountability for the violent actions of Georgian police against protesters. The report highlights the severe violence used by police and other security forces against mostly peaceful demonstrators near Georgia's parliament. It describes these acts as "punitive measures" carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"During large-scale and evidently punitive operations, security forces pursued, arbitrarily detained, and brutally beat protesters. Police subjected them to torture and other forms of ill-treatment in police vans and detention centers," HRW stated.

The report includes accounts from victims of police violence, many of whom suffered head injuries, concussions, multiple fractures of the nose, facial bones, ribs, and limbs, as well as bruises and lacerations. According to the findings, police used protective gear, black masks, and operated without identification marks. Meanwhile, authorities accused hundreds of protesters of minor offenses (disobedience to police) and prosecuted them in slow judicial proceedings without addressing serious allegations of police misconduct.

• "The level of violence used against predominantly peaceful demonstrators is shocking, amounts to blatant retaliation, and violates Georgia's domestic laws as well as international standards," said Hugh Williamson, HRW's director for Europe and Central Asia. "The scale of police abuse and the authorities' failure to hold anyone accountable for it strongly suggest that they either authorized or condoned the violence."

The report states that "mass nationwide protests" erupted in Georgia after the ruling party decided on November 28 to withdraw from the process of joining the European Union.

According to local monitoring groups, since November 28, authorities have arrested over 460 protesters, most of whom face administrative charges, while around 30 face criminal charges. At least 80 of the detained required hospitalization.

Source: sovanews.tv