Protests in Georgia against the law "

08 March 2023, 10:15 | Peace 
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Traffic resumed in Tbilisi along Rustaveli Avenue, the special forces stationed near the parliament are leaving, water cannons are being pulled out of this territory. Cleaning service workers arrived on the avenue. Even before the end of the rally, opposition leaders announced that the demonstration outside the parliament would resume on March 8 at 15. 00, writes the Georgian "

On March 7, a rally near the parliament building resumed after the parliamentary majority decided to include a discussion of the bill on "

After the adoption of the bill in the first reading, water cannons and pepper gas were used against protesters in the territory adjacent to the parliament.

Participants of the rally received injuries of varying severity. Dozens of demonstrators arrested. Their exact number is still unknown..

Later, new groups of special forces appeared on Rustaveli Avenue, dispersed the action, and occupied the place where the action took place.. They forced the demonstrators to leave the territory.

On March 7, the parliament adopted in the first reading the draft law "

The ruling party initially argued that t. Bills on foreign agents to be brought to session on Thursday, March 9. However, today, March 7, at the end of the day, the head of the Georgian Dream faction, Mamuka Mdinaradze, put forward at the session a proposal to consider the draft on the same day.

Hundreds of Georgian human rights activists and journalists say that after the law on foreign agents is passed, the government will first interfere with their work, and eventually silence them.

Источник: Зеркало недели