Police in Georgia have detained 63 participants in mass protests criticizing the government, the South Caucasus republic’s deputy interior minister, Alexander Darakhvelidze, said on Wednesday in the capital Tbilisi. During the night, security forces used tear gas, water cannons and batons against the crowd of tens of thousands of people. Their protest has been directed for weeks against the government’s plans to prevent alleged foreign influence on Georgian civil society. The second reading of this law is set to continue in the parliament of the former Soviet republic which is now a candidate …