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Despite the rain, protesters plan to resume their rally this evening at 6 pm in front of the Parliament building on Rustaveli Ave. Protestors left at approximately 1:30 am this morning, with Zaza Saralidze, the father of murdered teen Davit Saralidze, camping out overnight.

The series of rallies, which began Thursday night, are some of the largest in recent Tbilisi history. Protestors are coming out in solidarity with the families of two teenagers stabbed to death in early December in a brutal street fight. The protest started in response to the verdict of Tbilisi City Court, which found two minors detained for the murder guilty. One detainee was found guilty for the premeditated murder of 16-year old Levan Dadunashvili, but the Court was unable to definitively say who murdered classmate Davit Saralize, and convicted the second detainee of attemped murder.

Protestors call it a miscarriage of justice, claiming that high level officials in the case were paid off, and that money controls the justice system.

Yesterday, protestors were met with a small scale counter-protest led by Georgian March, a far-right, ultra-nationalist, neo-nazi group that has a history of staging counter demonstrations and threatening violence. Organizers claim that yesterday's counter protest was in solidarity with the Saralidze family, but separate from the main rally, which they claimed was "led by the former ruling United National Movement party." Several members of Georgian March were arrested at their counter rally last night. The Interior Ministry has offered Saralidze special protection from "certain politically-motivated forces” planning “provocations” against him that could be used "to destabilize the country," but Saralidze refused.

By Samantha Guthrie

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