"It's like a rising tide lifts all ships. To see one of those ships go down is really disheartening," she said.
Riot police in body armour have then sought to push them back with tear gas and water cannon.Videos of protesters defying the police have gone viral.
One woman brandished a Georgian flag as she braved a stream of water cannon, while another walked headlong into a barricade of police standing behind riot shields."You garbage people! I'm tired, so what do you want? Are you afraid of me?" shrieks the young woman defiantly, before she is bundled through the barricade and taken away.The woman has since been identified as Nana Tomaradze and a judge has fined her the equivalent of £720 (€870).
Her lawyer Lasha Tkesheladze said that in Georgian terms that meant two months' wages: "She has an 11-year-old son."In another video an elderly woman walks along a line of helmeted riot police, berating them for pitting Georgian against Georgian and defending politicians in their palaces.
But the harshness of the police response has drawn comparisons with autocratic states, most notably Russia and Belarus, and the government's critics say they are operating from a Russian playbook.
Other videos that have gone viral here are far more sinister.Last year, the installation was transported to Normandy to
The charity said that following an "overwhelming international response", the silhouettes were returning to be displayed at the British Normandy Memorial near the village of Ver-sur-Mer.They will stand to commemorate 80 years since the end of World War Two in Europe on 8 May 1945.
Four articulated lorries with flatbed trailers are transporting the silhouettes across the Channel, embarking at Portsmouth Harbour.The completed installation is due to be available to visit from 12 April until mid-September.