00:00Journalists have joined the protests in Georgia to denounce what they call an increase in
00:05violence against the media during the coverage of ongoing mass rallies in the country.
00:11Several hundred media workers on Sunday marched down Tbilisi's Central Rastaveli Avenue holding
00:17posters and pictures of their colleagues they say had been assaulted.
00:21The demonstration comes as tens of thousands of Georgians continue their protest against
00:26the ruling party.
00:28It is the 11th day of protests in Georgia.
00:31Over the weekend the unknown masked thugs attacked a journalist and a cameraman during
00:36a live broadcast.
00:37The following day the journalists protested the attacks on more than 50 journalists who
00:43were severely injured while performing their journalistic duties.
00:47The media representatives marched to the Parliament building of Georgia where the Christmas tree
00:52had been placed earlier that morning.
00:55The journalists attached the protest posters and the photos of the injured journalists
01:00to the Christmas tree transforming it to the protest tree.
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