Several hundred far-right activists and Orthodox Church members clashed with police in the Georgian capital on November 8 as they tried to block the premier of a Swedish-Georgian gay-themed film amid a heavy security measures. Some tried to force their way into the Amirani cinema but were held back by riot police who cordoned off the premises. One young woman trying to go watch the movie was hit by a stone and taken away in an ambulance. 12 have been arrested. The movie, “And Then We Danced” — Sweden’s official Oscar submission in the best international feature film category — is a love story about two male dancers in Georgia’s national ballet ensemble. Georgia’s Orthodox Church has denounced it as an “affront to the traditional Georgian values.”
Demonstrators gathered in two Kazakh cities on November 9 to call for freedom for political prisoners, a parliamentary republic, and fair elections. One of the rallies, in the capital, Nur-Sultan, was a sanctioned protest, while the second demonstration, in Almaty, was an unauthorized event. Police monitored the unsanctioned demonstration organized by activists from the civic movement Oyan, Qazaqstan (Wake Up, Kazakhstan), but did not intervene. Dozens of activists from the Respublika group gathered at a central park in the capital demonstrating for an end to the authoritarian presidential system, in which Kazakhstan’s longtime ruler, Nursultan Nazarbaev, abruptly resigned in March and named Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev his successor. Subsequent presidential elections on June 9, in which Toqaev was declared the winner, fell short of democratic standards according to international observers~RFE/RL
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