More than 100 demonstrators were arrested overnight in Georgia as protesters clashed with police following the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

Georgia on Saturday said 107 people were arrested during a second day of protests sparked by the government's decision to delay European Union membership talks amid a post-election crisis.Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's statement Thursday that Georgia will not seek to open accession talks with the European Union until 2028 ignited a furious reaction from the opposition and two days of protests.

Police and protesters have clashed in Georgia after the country’s ruling party suspended negotiations to join the European Union until 2028.

Georgian riot police in Tbilisi have violently cracked down on a pro-EU demonstration sparked by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s earlier announcement that Georgia was halting its EU membership bid “until 2028.

Police in the South Caucasus republic of Georgia reported on Saturday that 107 people were arrested during protests the previous night in the capital Tbilisi alone. "Despite repeated appeals by representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,

Georgia is suspending talks on its bid to join the European Union for four years, its prime minister said Thursday, in view of what he described as “blackmail and manipulation” from some of the bloc’s politicians.

Thousands of people took to the streets after the government said it had suspended talks on joining the European Union.

Protests erupted in Tbilisi and the Black Sea port of Batumi for the second night in a row over Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s decision to suspend the EU talks