The police in Georgia are again trying to break up the demonstrations in Tbilisi

Police in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, are again trying to break up demonstrations this evening after arresting more than 200 people protesting the government's four-year suspension of EU membership talks in the previous four evenings.

Law enforcement has used water cannons and tear gas to drive protesters away from the parliament building, where they have gathered every night since the ruling Georgian Dream party - accused by its opponents of falsifying the results of recent parliamentary elections in its favor - announced a break in negotiations with the European Union and declared that they will not even use European budget money.

The contested election was viewed as a referendum on Georgia's European aspirations. Their results brought the citizens to the streets, and pushed the opposition to boycott the work of the parliament. The pro-Western president of the country, Salome Zourabishvili, does not recognize the election results and, together with the opposition, accuses Georgian Dream of falsifying the election results with the support of the Russian authorities.

The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced today that 224 deminstrants were arrested for misdemeanors, and three for crimes.

So far, 116 police officers have been injured in the riots, three of whom have been hospitalized, after clashes with protesters in which they attacked the police with pyrotechnic devices used to make fireworks.

President Zurabishvili says many of the arrested protesters have head injuries, including broken bones and bruised eyeballs. Referring to the lawyers who represent the arrested, she said that some of them were systematically beaten between the moment of arrest and being put in the cell.