The police in Georgia are reacting violently and abusively against protestors who took to the streets against the "foreign agent law", that would force NGOs, civil rights groups and media to register as “foreign agents” if more than 20% of their funding came from abroad.
The chair of the leading party says the law is meant to prevent “non-transparent funding of NGOs", which is "the main instrument for the appointment of a Georgian government from abroad”.
Meanwhile, the local government is validating a violent reaction against public assembly, protests and the wave of discontent among the citizens. Remember, it's not violence if the state powers are doing it. We only call it violence when it threatens to disturb the status quo.
The first attempt to introduce this law was also met with protests last year
Now, thousands of demonstrators have shut down Tbilisi’s central streets since parliament approved the bill’s first reading on 17 April.
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