2023 attack on Tbilisi Pride

Deputy interior minister Alexander Darakhvelidze stated that no one was harmed during the incident, and that the police evacuated the organizers of pride parade from Lisi lake by bus.

Several announcements were posted on July 7 on Tbilisi Pride's social media platforms like Twitter Instagram[better source needed] and Facebook.

The protesters clashed against the police forces who were wearing masks, Bulletproof vests and armed with Batons and Semi-automatic rifles.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia once again neglected to protect us from violent far-right groups and allowed the mobs to prevent us from exercising our freedom of expression & assembly even in private settings".

The clashes and protests ended up not harming anyone but caused several arrests of violent anti-LGBT and far right demonstrators who brawled with police and broke the barricades.

Protesters marching in Nutsubidze Plato II.
Far-right, Ultranationalist and other Georgian anti-LGBT protesters marching with flags at Nutsubidze Plato II micro district.