The “One People — One Georgia” civic campaign has announced a protest rally on June 20, marking the seventh anniversary of the events known as “Gavrilov’s Night.”
The organizers announced that participants will gather at 7:00 PM near the Tbilisi Philharmonic, the capital’s main concert hall, before marching to the parliament building.
Guram Chukhrukidze, a representative of the campaign, stated that the rally is dedicated to the events of June 20, 2019, when mass protests erupted in Tbilisi after a deputy of the Russian State Duma (the lower house of parliament) took the seat of the speaker of the Georgian parliament during a session of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy.
The organizers state that they view the dispersal of the protests and the use of force against demonstrators as one of the most painful pages in the country’s modern history. They also claim that seven years later, Georgia still faces unresolved issues of violence, impunity, unlawful detentions, and attacks on journalists.
“June 20 is a day of responsibility, unity, and struggle. Our unity will be the response to violence, fear, and injustice,” he said.
