NEW YORK, Dec. 26 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news: * * * Effective Investigations, Accountability Urgently Needed * * * (Berlin, December 24, 2024) - Police and other security forces have used brutal violence against largely peaceful protesters in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, Human Rights Watch said today. In widespread and apparently punitive acts, security forces have chased down, violently detained, and beat protesters. Police also tortured and otherwise ill-treated them in  more