April 15, 2005
Georgian Students Protest New Standards
Attempts to uphold a new law overhauling education in Georgia have led to several weeks of protests in the capital, T'bilisi. Police aggressively broke up early demonstrations, after which students went on a hunger strike, the government dismissed a university rector, and the political opposition tried to impeach the country's minister of education and science.
The protests began in March when hundreds of students of a preparatory college in medicine gathered outside Parliament to
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