Georgia protesters decry brutal treatment by police

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TBLISI: Standing in the courtyard of his apartment block in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, Zurab Japaridze shows traces of injuries to his head, still visible five days after he was arrested at an anti-government rally.

from the youth-led protests that marked a culmination of widespread discontent over the authorities perceived backsliding on democracy and ruling party's covert collaboration with arch-foe Moscow.

The 47-year-old leader of a small opposition party called Girchi More Freedom said he was taken with two other protesters to the courtyard of a nearby building and brutally beaten. "I asked them for medicine but there was none," he said."Now there will be a court hearing as if it was me who had breached the law."Several protesters who had been arrested at the demonstrations told AFP they all face similar charges of"hooliganism" and"disobedience", punishable by a fine or up to 15 days behind bars.

"It was so sudden that I panicked, I didn't know what to do and raised my hands. They grabbed me and took me across the street," the 34-year-old employee of the IT sector told AFP. Investigators have announced a probe into numerous cases of police allegedly using"excessive force" against the demonstrators.

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