(21 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tbilisi - 19 May 2024
1. Student protester Gvantsa Natsvlishvili walking with megaphones to join protest
2. Close of megaphones in trunk of a car
3. Natsvlishvili speaking on phone inside a car
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gvantsa Natsvlishvili, student protester:
“I really don't want to become one of those women who left the country because of the regime. I have a way to protest, and I want to use it. And I have voice and I want to speak out. And I think if we will win, it will be a win for a lot of people who couldn't. A lot of women who couldn't.”
5. Students gathering at Europe Square to protest
6. Students listening to national anthem
7. Natsvlishvili applauding
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gvantsa Natsvlishvili, 20, student:
“We just want to do a circle around the square, European Square, because we think it's symbolic. It is symbolic because we are on the square of Europe, and it is symbolic also because we want to hold hands and kind of like do this. It's the sign of winning, because we think that standing together is our recipe to win. It's like why we are better than Georgian Dream, and how we can defeat them is our unity.”
9. Various of protesters holding hands
10. Protesters standing in Europe Square
11. Protesters holding hands
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Natali Japaridze, student protester:
“We're students, we are not born in slavery, and we were born in a free country. And our children are going to say that as well. That's why we're fighting today, and that's what we are fighting for.”
13. Various of students unfolding European flag
14. Various of students waving European flag over the bridge of peace
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Liza Kvatchadze, student protester:
“We keep fighting against Russian law, because our government doesn't listen to us, so we have to, we have to fight. We have to be there. We have to organize any protests, because our country and our future is European, so we don't want anything Russian in Georgia.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tbilisi - 20 May 2024
16. Exterior of Tbilisi State University
17. Various of students with Georgian flags gathering for protest
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Aleksandre Suladze, student protester:
“I think it's important to let the country, the citizens know where students stand, and let other students know that we are many and we are together, and that this is not a normal situation in the country. This is not how things should be done. This is not the place right now to, study, for example, psychology, because we have to fulfil our duties as the citizens.”
19. Various of Luka Beraia, the chairperson of Students for the European Future, standing near protesting students
20. Various of students marching
21. Police officer watching students
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Luka Beraia, Chairperson of Students for the European Future:
“When they threatened us, we do not get threatened. We are more engaged about MeToo, for example, like, of course I'm standing here after all these calls (with threats), all this, like, messages from the government. No, it's not. It doesn't threaten us, and it won't, I'm pretty sure, because you see that students are almost every day outside. So that's an end game for Russian Dream, I think. But we need to stand, to overcome this and go to the finish line at least.”
23. Various of students marching
24. Tilt up of student waving Georgian flag
STORYLINE:
A 20-year-old student from Tbilisi is hurrying to a car with megaphones.
“I have a way to protest, and I want to use it,” she added.
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