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Added on the 08/06/2021 19:44:22 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Opposition lawmakers in Georgia disrupt parliament to demand the prime minister's resignation after a cameraman died following violent protests, blaming the ruling party for the latest attack on journalists. Alexander Lashkarava, who worked for an independent TV news channel called Pirveli, died on Sunday -- days after he was beaten by far-right activists during a protest against an LGBTQ Pride march. IMAGES
Members of Portugal's centre-right opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) react to the release of an exit poll which predicts their victory in the elections. IMAGES
Georgian police arrest a top opposition leader and use tear gas in a violent raid on his party headquarters, further deepening a political crisis sparked by last year's disputed parliamentary elections. Local television footage shows Nika Melia, the leader of the United National Movement, the country's main opposition party, being dragged from his party headquarters to be placed in pre-trial detention. IMAGES
Thousands of protestors gather outside Georgia's parliament in Tbilisi as the ruling party gears up to adopt a controversial Kremlin-style "foreign influence" law. Tbilisi has seen three straight nights of mass rallies over the bill that mirrors repressive laws on advocacy groups and media outlets introduced in Russia, and that have been slammed by the European Union and the United States. IMAGES
Several thousand activists and supporters of Alt-Info, a Georgian ultra-conservative pro-Russian movement, rally outside the headquarters of the ruling Georgian Dream party and burn European Union flags to protest the recent refusal of their registration as a political party. Activists from the group, which started as a TV channel espousing anti-liberal viewpoints, have previously been accused of assaulting participants at gay pride parades in the capital Tbilisi. IMAGES