On Tuesday evening, the police used tear gas and fired rubber bullets to disperse the thousands of demonstrators who had gathered against this text seen as an obstacle to the country’s aspirations to join the EU.
Thousands of demonstrators
Waving Georgian and European flags, thousands of demonstrators gathered again in front of the parliament, trying to block the entrances to the building, noted an AFP journalist. If passed, the law would require any NGO or media organization receiving more than 20 percent of its funding from abroad to register as an “organization pursuing the interests of a foreign power.”
A first version of the text, inspired by a Russian law used by the Kremlin to repress dissident voices, was abandoned last year after large-scale street demonstrations.
