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One woman brandished a Georgian flag as she braved a stream of water cannon, while another walked headlong into a barricade of police standing behind riot shields.

Protesters chanted "no to martial law" and "strike down dictatorship" as the sounds of sirens from dozens of assembled police patrol cars and riot police buses occasionally rang out.

He has promised to issue pardons of his own for those who rioted in Washington.

A tense stand-off between protesters and riot police continued through the night in Tbilisi on Thursday.

It rose up the agenda following the riots in Dublin in November 2023 however it has not been the defining election topic.