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For months, Tbilisi's main Rustaveli Avenue was blocked for a few hours every evening. New laws and a heavy police presence forced the protesters to adapt, marching through adjacent streets and facing nightly arrests.

Georgia's Interior Ministry has announced the arrest of 13 people in conjunction with anti-government protests following elections in the capital, Tbilisi, on October 4.

Tens of thousands marched in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on polling day against the government’s repressive policies, and what they see as Georgia’s steady drift into Moscow’s orbit.

Tbilisi was on edge as protesters were expected to gather in the Georgian capital on September 9, a day after supporters of the ruling party, Georgian Dream, attacked protesters participating in ongoing demonstrations ov...

The president of Georgia said on Friday he had pardoned two jailed opposition politicians, citing a need to maintain electoral competitiveness ahead of municipal elections next month in the South Caucasus country.

Last autumn's elections sparked a wave of more than six months of anti-government protests in Georgia.

Three Georgian opposition politicians were sentenced to months in prison on Monday, the first to be convicted in a series of prosecutions targeting government critics who refused to give evidence to lawmakers.

Georgian authorities arrested several opposition figures during anti-government protests on the streets of Tbilisi on February 2, prompting the European Union to again condemn what it termed the "brutal crackdown" on dis...

Workers participating in a three-hour general strike called by opponents of the Georgian government were attacked in the street, reportedly by members of the ruling Georgian Dream party.

Georgia inaugurated its new president Sunday amid claims his controversial election was a sham.

Georgia and Turkey on Tuesday received stinging report cards from European Union ministers over their accession process, while Ukraine and Moldova mostly got gold stars.

More than 400 people who authorities and rights groups say have been arrested during protests against government moves to delay the South Caucasus country's longstanding bid to join the European Union.

More than 300 people have been arrested since mass protests erupted in Georgia six nights ago, and an increasing number of accounts have emerged alleging violent attacks by police.

More than 200 people have been detained after four nights of protests in the Georgian capital following the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union after the block lambasted the country’s...

Georgian police have fired teargas to try to disperse thousands of pro-EU demonstrators rallying in the centre of Tbilisi amid a deepening political crisis in the Black Sea nation.

Police and protesters brutally clashed in Georgia after the country’s ruling party suspended negotiations to join the European Union until 2028.

The newly elected Georgian parliament opened its inaugural session Monday as opposition lawmakers and the president boycotted it and thousands of protesters, watched by riot police, rallied outside and accused the ruling...

A court in the central Georgian city of Gori on November 6 rejected a petition by election monitors calling for the annulment of results in several election precincts in the city where violations of the vote's confidenti...

Thousands of opposition supporters rallied outside Georgia’s parliament for the second straight Monday to denounce the Oct. 26 election as illegitimate after the ruling party was declared the winner amid allegations of v...

Georgia's prime minister has hailed a "landslide" election result, rejecting allegations of vote-rigging and violence.