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What Local Reporters Recorded at the Marneuli Rally

Two accounts document the gathering and speeches, with no verified public service interruption.

On October 31, 2023, a pro-Palestinian rally began in the park next to the House of Azerbaijan in Marneuli. Radio Marneuli reported speeches by a local mosque cleric and Ali Aliyev. Civil Georgia put attendance at about one hundred.

Radio Marneuli later clarified that Aliyev no longer represented the Caucasus Muslims’ Board and that his remarks did not represent the organisation. The speakers’ remarks and the attendance estimate describe the event. The local coverage supplies no verified closure, injuries or property damage. The Human Rights Center’s separate sample of 15 assemblies is useful context for how protests were monitored in Georgia that year.

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