A large-scale strike will take place in Georgia against the authorities' rollback of European integration — when exactly
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Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:01:00 +0200
Entrepreneurs and workers to strike in GeorgiaThe strike participants plan to temporarily close their establishments and take to the streets to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the situation in the country.For 3 hours we will temporarily close the doors and stay outside.
With our strike, we will show what awaits us in isolation a stalled economy closed businesses poverty and unemployment.
Both the threat and the solutions are common to all new elections and the release of detainees.
Therefore regardless of where you work, whether you are a business owner, manager or employee, join us says the message of the Protest 24 resource, which announced the strike.The publication explained that this action is a response to Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidzes statement of November 28, when he announced that the issue of opening negotiations with the European Union on Georgias accession would not be discussed until the end of 2028.Protesters are demanding new elections and the release of those detained during the protests.
Georgian authorities deport foreigners participating in antigovernment ralliesThe Georgian authorities have begun deportation procedures for foreign citizens who participated in the protests on Rustaveli Avenue, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
In total, 91 foreigners were ordered to leave the country in NovemberDecember 2024.
More than a quarter of them were participants in protests against the Georgian authorities decision to freeze negotiations on joining the EU.
The decision to expel them was made after they were found guilty of administrative offenses.Among the persons for whom the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has initiated deportation procedures are foreign citizens who participated in the protests that took place in Tbilisi in NovemberDecember, and to whom the court imposed various administrative penalties a total of 25 people, the Ministry of Internal Affairs informs.Of the 25 mentioned citizens, 10 have already left the country.
In December, foreigners who showed up for the rallies began to be summoned to the migration department.
The agency does not specify which countries they are citizens of.
Earlier, media reported that at least 15 foreigners detained at the protests were Russian citizens.
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