FILE PHOTO: Police officers detain an opposition supporter during a protest against the government in Tbilisi, Georgia November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/File Photo
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's parliament suspended its work for four hours on Thursday after a foul-smelling substance was sprayed in the chamber in what the speaker described as a "chemical attack".
A civil protest movement said it had smuggled a veterinary antiseptic liquid into parliament to disrupt proceedings before a vote on the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court whom the opposition reject as pro-government.
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