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Thousands protest in Georgia over ‘Russia-style’ law
Updated On: 14 May, 2024 07:45 AM IST | Tbilisi | Agencies
The opposition denounces the bill as `the Russian law` because Moscow uses similar legislation to crack down on independent news media, non-profits and activists critical of the Kremlin.
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Demonstrators protest the controversial ‘foreign influence’ bill near the parliament in Tbilisi. Pic/AFP
Georgia’s parliament green-lit a final vote on a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union on Monday, a day after police dispersed the latest protests against it.
The bill would require media and non-governmental organisations and other non-profits to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20 per cent of their funding from abroad.
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