Strategy Agmashenebeli leader urges protesters to encircle parliament building

22:18, 08.03.2023

Strategy Agmashenebeli leader Giorgi Vashadze urged the protesters to encircle the parliament building.

“Let’s do this peacefully. We call on the police not to confront peaceful protesters,” Vashadze noted.

Vashadze also called on the ruling Georgian Dream party to withdraw People’s Power’s draft bills on Transparency of Foreign Influence and release those apprehended at yesterday’s rally.

Georgians have been protesting for a second day against the so-called Foreign Agents bills that would require non-governmental and media organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents.”

The “No to the Russian law” rally kicked off on Tuesday after the Georgian Parliament passed a first reading of the legislation. To disperse the crowds, the police used tear gas and water cannon against them.

By - Marika Kartozia

Politics

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