Police in Georgia's capital again moved to disperse thousands of demonstrators on Monday after over 200 people were detained during four previous nights of protests against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union.

The ruling Georgian Dream party’s disputed victory in the country’s Oct. 26 parliamentary election, widely seen as a referendum on Georgia’s aspirations to join the EU, has sparked mass demonstrations.

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Monday urged Georgian authorities to safeguard freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly following four consecutive nights of protests in Tbilisi sparked by the Government's decision last week to delay the country’s European Union accession talks until 2028.