Citizens! Please, disperse! Otherwise…
Hundreds of thousands of citizens have protested against the government on Rustaveli Avenue in the capital since November 28, 2024. Continuous resistance was triggered by the statement of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who said that the Georgian Dream Party would suspend negotiations with the EU until 2028. About 400 people have been arrested during the ongoing protest, 44 of them on criminal charges. In addition to students, actors, a doctor, a journalist, and academics, one minor is also in custody. On the day of his inauguration, December 29, Mikheil Kavelashvili signed the laws that were adopted by Parliament on December 13 in the third reading. Amendments were made to 28 existing laws, including the "Law on Public Service," "Law on Police," "Law on Assembly and Demonstration," as well as the administrative offenses, criminal law, and election codes. Some of the laws, passed by the "Georgian Dream" party in Parliament through an expedited process, have already entered into force
Tako Robakidze
Tako Robakidze is a documentary photographer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2008 she got Bachelor’s degree in Law at Tbilisi State University. Parallel to the university studies, she was enrolled in school of documentary photography ‘Sepia’, and continued her studies for 5 years. In 2015, she received her master's degree from Caucasus University's Graduate School of Journalism. Since 2010 she has been working as a freelance photographer, cooperated with Georgian and international NGOs, covering diverse social topics. In 2017 she received Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship. In 2020 she was recipient of Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum Multimedia Lab Production Grant. In 2020 for her work about Georgian IDPs she got production grant of Goethe Institute. In 2021 she received Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship. In 2022 she was selected as VII Academy Fellow. She is a National Geographic Explorer. In 2023 she was chosen for VII academy
Mentorship Program. In 2024 she received Alexia award of excellence. Her work is focused on documenting sociopolitical conditions and experiences of war in Georgia.
Reportage “Citizens! Please, disperse! Otherwise…” was created for the media platform Chai Khana.
