(14 May 2024)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tbilisi, Georgia – 14 May 2024
1. Various of protest at Parliament entrance
2. Close of European Union flag waving with police on the background
3. Mid of protesters
4. Close of police
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ana Lapiashvili, lecturer:
"Obviously, they made a decision to adopt the "Russian law" and we believe that this is the way toward Russia. This is the Russian imposed legislation and it definitely will not lead us to the European Union. And the only thing we can do currently is to protest and make sure that in the long term perspective they won’t win."
6. Close of EU and Georgian flags
7. Mid of protesters wrapped in Georgian flags
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Petriashvili, political analyst:
"It is important to demonstrate that the Georgian society and Georgian people will not accept blocking its path towards the European Union in going back to USSR. Never, never, never give up and we will fight, we will go, and I have no doubts that more and more people will come to the streets."
9. Wide of protest
STORYLINE:
Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday began the third and the final reading of a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests.
Critics see it as a threat to democratic freedoms and Georgia’s aspirations to join the European Union.
The bill would require media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
A large crowd of demonstrators gathered in front of the parliament in Tbilisi, amid heavy presence of riot police, to protest the bill once again.
Lawmakers were discussing it in the lead up to a vote.
The opposition denounces the bill as “the Russian law,” because Moscow uses similar legislation to crack down on independent news media, nonprofits and activists critical of the Kremlin.
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