GOC calls for peace

22:35, 06.07.2021

The Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church called demonstrators for peace and restraint.

“Mounting tensions, verbal abuses and hate speech is intolerable,” the Patriarchate said in a statement, having added that violence will bring no good to the country.

“The violence will hurt all – individuals, society and statehood,” it said.

Law enforcers have parted participants of two opposite rallies on Rustaveli Avenue with a metal fence. Opponents of Tbilisi Pride are pushing towards the silent protest organized by opposition, NGOs and Tbilisi Pride activists in response to July 5 violent developments.

Two opposite rallies are underway on Rustaveli Avenue. One group of protesters, among them representatives of opposition parties, NGOs and Tbilisi Pride activists, gathered near the Parliament building, while the other on the opposite side of the road near the Kashveti Church.

By - Elene Dobordjginidze

Society