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'Campaign Of Terror': Georgia's Escalating Rights Crackdown

Anti-government protesters hold pictures of fellow demonstrators injured in alleged police beatings (Credit: AFP)

Georgian rights activists have denounced what they say is a mounting campaign of repression being waged by the government, accused of democratic backsliding and of moving Tbilisi closer to Russia.

The Black Sea nation has been rocked by daily mass protests since the Georgian Dream party claimed victory in October parliamentary elections rejected as falsified by the opposition, and then suspended EU accession talks with Brussels.

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