Filmed, Punished, Silenced: How Russian Surveillance Software Oppresses Georgian Civil Society

People have been demonstrating in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi every evening for around 580 days. – CC-BY 4.0: George BeridzeEven after almost 580 days, hundreds of people demonstrate against the authoritarian government every evening in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. He managed to break the protest movement in Georgia: with physical violence - and with facial recognition software and a network of AI-supported cameras. A report.