Almost 40 detained in Tbilisi protests
Read on the website Vestnik KavkazaA total of 37 people have been detained in the protests outside the Georgian parliament, the country’s Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"On November 18, during the rally outside the parliament, 37 people in total had been detained for ‘disobeying the legitimate orders of law-enforcement officers’ and ‘petty hooliganism’," the ministry said in a statement.
According to the Health Ministry, 12 people - one of them a police officer - were injured in the unrest, while three people had been admitted to hospitals.
According to the statement, the other two individuals listed as injured are a 44-year-old man hospitalized with chest pain and a 27-year-old young man who passed out when the rally was being dispersed, TASS reported.