Thousands protest against Georgia’s ‘foreign influence’ bill • FRANCE 24 English

now in other world news the European Union has today condemned Georgia after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of demonstrators those in the streets were protesting against a controversial foreign influence bill which critics say will silence descent now the clashes overnight were the most intense in around three weeks of rallies and our reporter Talen uan was there angered by what they call the Russian law students block the parliament’s entries where deputies continue the second reading of the text we will never be okay with this slow I’m most afraid that we will be isolated from the world outside especially from Europe this is just a slippery slope of Destruction this demonstration shows that the movement is still Vivid as it’s been two weeks since thousands of Georgians gathered every night we are not neither optimistic nor pessimistic we are determined we will do everything in our hands to change things in Georgia we are going to Europe that’s our last decision the challenge for the demonstrators is to gather enough people in the street against the government that insists whatever the cost on passing this law as the reading of the law goes on tension Rises [Applause] [Music] today I don’t think anything going to happen because uh rooc cops already left the place I’m going to come back tomorrow I’m going to come back day after tomorrow and all day I will be here I will be here when they start and an unjustified unprovoked and disproportionate use of force according to Georgian president sish [Applause] [Music] a repression that is likely to raise those young people’s wrath as their future is at stake

Police in Georgia fired teargas and rubber bullets at protesters demonstrating against a bill that would require organisations – including media and NGOs – that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as agents “pursuing the interests of a foreign power”. The bill has been dubbed the “Russian law” by its detractors based on its similarity to legislation in place in Russia. “We will never be OK with this law,” one demonstrator told FRANCE 24’s Taline Oundjian. “I’m also afraid we will be isolated from the world outside, and especially from Europe.” 

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15 comments

  3. Crazy how "disclosing who pays your salary" is now considered an "attack on democracy". 🤡🇺🇸🇪🇺

  7. Unless you start with the content of the law, this "report" is just cheap propaganda and it looks like the background for a colour revolution that EU is again involved in.

  9. European Union propaganda from the globalists. Georgians are a passionate people who protest intensely but they also gridlock traffic and obstruct movement of vehicular transportation in the city when they do these regularly it's not the right they're breaking the law

  10. btw we protest in the afternoon so as to not interfere with everyday lives of people. these people work during the day like everyone else and protest from evening to maybe morning. it has been a tough 3 weeks almost and we honestly dont know if there is a peaceful end in sight. they are very brutally beating people up. doesnt matter young or old, male or female, they beat them up very hard. main opposition leader was beaten bloody when he was dragged in by the riot police. 10 people surrounded him and beat him up. he was hospitalized yesterday and had a broken nose and a very swollen eye (almost had permanent damage done to it). people like to chime in saying what about transparency when the main judges appointed by the russian dream resist and dont declare their income and property, when politicians themselves dont declare these things and they are excluding their daddy oligarch bidzina ivanishvili from this law. he can get the gazprom money he gets and he isnt a foreign agent :). thats how it is going to be enforced by liars and hypocrites who cry transparency and yet hide everything.

  11. This law requires all "foreign agents" to pass regular reports, which should be reviewed by the government and in case of any questions, a "foreign agent" can be fined (relatively huge fines) or banned. This is the point. It is an ultimate weapon to destroy all independent voices, as in undeveloped countries like Georgia, local business are usually very dependent on local authorities (official and most importantly unofficial) and legal system is weak.

    Georgians are right. It is a slippery slope towards russia-like totalitarizm and lawlessness.

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