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Several thousand opposition supporters, civic activists and ordinary citizens held a silent rally outside the Parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue, the Georgian capital’s main thoroughfare, to protest yesterday’s homophobic pogroms against now-cancelled LGBT Pride March, that left over 50 journalists injured, CIVIL.GE reported.

Right-libertarian Girchi-More Freedom party leader Zurab Japaridze of Girchi, European Georgia party and civic activists have called on their supporters to protest against violence and for freedom of expression and assembly earlier today. Opposition parties are accusing the Georgian Dream government of organising and encouraging violent homophobic groups.

Tbilisi Pride activists also joined the rally “for Freedom.” Noting that “it was a hard day for Georgian democracy yesterday,” the LGBT+ activist group earlier today called on its supporters, who could not attend the cancelled pride to join the silent rally today.