‘They won’t silence us’: beaten Georgia activist says protests will continue

Zuka Berdzenishvili, who was attacked outside his home in Tbilisi, Georgia. Photograph: Zuka Berdzenishvili

Zuka Berdzenishvili’s face was a canvas of rainbow colours, his piercing blue eyes partly bloodstained above a pronounced purple bruise.

Berdzenishvili, a prominent activist and co-founder of the Georgian pro-democracy movement Shame, was ambushed and beaten outside his house last week by a group of unknown assailants who pushed and kicked him to the ground.