Over 100 protesters arrested in Georgia during second night of unrest

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Protesters again swarmed the parliament, with some trying to break through its gates, in anger over the government's back-tracking on EU negotiations.

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00:00Thousands of people have protested for a second night against the Georgian government's decision

00:07to suspend European Union accession negotiations. Protesters swarmed the parliament in the capital

00:13Tbilisi with some trying to break the metal gates to the building. Riot police used tear

00:18gas and pepper spray to push protesters back. That elicited an angry response from the country's

00:24pro-EU President Salome Zubishvili, who called it Russian-style repression in a post on X.

00:31The ruling Georgian Dream's victory in October's election sparked massive demonstrations, with

00:36the opposition claiming the vote was rigged. That led EU lawmakers to press for a rerun

00:41under international supervision. But Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Kobahidze hit back,

00:47accusing the EU of blackmail and suspended accession talks until 2028. The EU granted

00:53Georgia candidate country status in December 2023.

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