On Monday, June 6, far-right demonstrators stormed an LGBTQ activists’ headquarters of Tbilisi Pride in a rampaging violent attack. Reports say that at least 20 journalists were injured during the illegal assault. The violent demonstrators also publicly burned a rainbow flag.
Every human being has an inalienable right to peaceful assembly and association. Tbilisi Pride was planning to hold peaceful events to increase the visibility of the LGBTQ and draw attention to the ongoing discrimination that they face in Georgia. Not only was the right to peaceful assembly violated by the far-right protesters, but Georgia’s authorities also failed to provide any effective preventive or reactive security measures for Tbilisi Pride, despite the activists’ appeals for and attempts at holding the event with government support.
In the document you can read ECOM’s position on this issue.