Georgia: clashes break out between police and protesters over 'foreign agents' bill
Riot police armed with water cannon and teargas have been accused of beating protesters who picketed outside Georgia’s parliament to try to stop a final vote on a controversial “foreign influence” law.
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Critics fear the bill, which is due to have its third reading on Monday and final vote on Tuesday, will stifle the media and NGOs. The US has said parliamentarians must choose between Kremlin-style laws or the Euro-Atlantic democratic path they had embarked upon
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About 50,000 protest in Tbilisi against Georgia ‘foreign agents’ bill ► www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/thousands-protest-against-foreign-influence-bill-in-georgia
@user-lg5cj9xd6f
21 күн бұрын
200000
this is what the UK is afraid of
@imperatorvespasian3125
21 күн бұрын
NATO trying to overthrow the elected government?
@user-yt6de9mn3y
21 күн бұрын
No it’s not
@jamyDodger
21 күн бұрын
Afraid of what? I'm confused... The riots or the bill?
@jamyDodger
21 күн бұрын
Wow Yes it is NOT what the UK wants AT ALL these NGOs steal our money to give to the wealthy in a one world globalist interest... Is this bill already in the UK? We need to shut all these NGOs down. They are unaccountable waste of spaces trying to funnel everything into a one World gov
@voice.of.reason
21 күн бұрын
UK already has rent-a-mob protesters every day waving Palestine flags around. Georgia has people waving a foreign flag too, the EU flag
Long live Georgia, from Wales, this is what pride and respect for your country and values looks like, the UK could learn from this
@voice.of.reason
21 күн бұрын
The protesters want to join the EU and be ruled from Brussels, that's giving away all your values to a foreign unelected power. And they don't even know that the bill keeps Georgia free
@GwynBleys
21 күн бұрын
That makes no sense. These people wanna become part of EU and give up most of their rights.
@rosit3839
20 күн бұрын
@@voice.of.reason For Georgia to be free the politicians of the ruling party should allow a thorough check of the origin of their finances and business.
Guardian - Always covering the protests but never shows the story in detail, interviews government or ever gets the other side of the story
if Vicky Nulamd turns up again don’t accept the cookies 😂
"Oh yeah" London or Washington police are very kind to protesters, lolz...
@bertrandrussell894
21 күн бұрын
A *lot* kinder than Russia or South Africa or China or Venezuala etc, or indeed any Arab country....
@Maxchama
21 күн бұрын
@@bertrandrussell894 oh sure they are my dear and that's what I said thou. 😂
Every country should have a law like this one! How much of British media is owned and controlled from outside the country?
@user-vw6bk4pb4l
21 күн бұрын
Owned by who? Americans? Chinese?
@sinjohnsmyth8301
21 күн бұрын
Israel and u.s. state department to be precise
@sergio7248
21 күн бұрын
If your country is on the path to join the EU, as Georgia is, and every EU citizen must be equal in every EU state, live, work and do business. Then it makes no sense that, for example, a German who opens a business in Georgia needs to be signed up as a foreign agent, since Georgians don't have too. Joining the EU means giving up some sovereignty, but that is each country's decision and there are rules to follow. No need to even say about how fr**king sketchy the law is on its own, which is another tool to silence anyone with a legal excuse.
@GwynBleys
21 күн бұрын
@@sergio7248 Hahahaha but is EU the USSR? With countries having to give up their national identity?
I’m failing to see the problem. We should have the same in the UK, surely? I mean…everything in the UK is foreign-owned but it’s always handy to have the clarity.
@bats3773
20 күн бұрын
Politicians "foreign-owed" too?
@sandro-of9fq
19 күн бұрын
0:25 is this problem clear enough to you?
@gordonthomson7533
19 күн бұрын
@@sandro-of9fq don’t conflate the issues - you need some clarity of perception. Im failing to see the problem in the bill itself. Your identified problem is police brutality. It’s a separate issue.
I don't understand what the protests are about at all. I don't see anything wrong with the law.
@Doomer1984
11 күн бұрын
It will prevent foreign countries influencing Georgian politics
NO FOREIGN AGENTS! 1312
They want to be a part of the E.U. not Russia
@voice.of.reason
21 күн бұрын
Join the EU and be ruled from Brussels, that's giving away all your values to a foreign unelected power. And they don't even know that the bill keeps Georgia free
@Doomer1984
11 күн бұрын
Why can't they just be Georgian
Protesters or agent provocateurs? Why would they protest about this if they were not proxies of a foreign nation?
@sergio7248
21 күн бұрын
If your country is on the path to join the EU, as Georgia is, and every EU citizen must be equal in every EU state, live, work and do business. Then it makes no sense that, for example, a German who opens a business in Georgia needs to be signed up as a foreign agent, since Georgians don't have too. Joining the EU means giving up some sovereignty, but that is each country's decision and there are rules to follow. No need to even say about how fr**king sketchy the law is on its own, which is another tool to silence anyone with a legal excuse.
@user-fz9ww9sr1o
21 күн бұрын
@@sergio7248 Businesses? The bill was about foreign None government organisations and NGOs are not a business the last I checked.
@sergio7248
21 күн бұрын
@@user-fz9ww9sr1o Same, any organization, including businesses. If you are not Georgian, or even if you are but your funding isn't, you have to register as a foreign influence agent. Which is incompatible with the EU, as it doesn't treat all EU citizens equally. This is why they are protesting.
@bleu2680
21 күн бұрын
Did you know that you can be opposed to things that don't directly affect you?
If this was happening in India or any of the college protest arrests happened in India then guardian would cry- democracy is dead in India!! It’s a dictatorship😅
0:02 what a throw
Shocking just like British police during lockdown
@voice.of.reason
21 күн бұрын
The idea that people can block a democratic vote in parliament is undemocratic and they should rightly be moved on
This might rurn into anothe war in Europe.
Very repressive police just like in Russia 😡😡😡😡
Same as in Ukraine’s coup of 2014… they will also learn in due course but at the same huge cost!
@sergio7248
21 күн бұрын
Meaning: if they protest Russia invades? 😂 Seems like they are right to not want to be like Russia.
@jabbadabbajew6035
21 күн бұрын
@@sergio7248no it means be careful what you ask for. The Devil always wants something in return.
Its a correct intention, because the foreign NGO's and media are serving the interest of the parent country under the guise of helping locals or journalism.
I LOVE AMERICA 😇
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looks like its becoming like Russia...
@user-du6oz7lo4s
21 күн бұрын
В России и близко нет таких действий, как в штатах, европе, британии Водомёты, слезоточивый газ, дубинки- это ваше, демократичное
@dorapha8595
21 күн бұрын
@@user-du6oz7lo4s Yeah they just get arrested or have lethal accidents.
@kom17
21 күн бұрын
are you blind lol? have you not seen France, Germany, Netherlands police???
@eagleeye182
21 күн бұрын
@@user-du6oz7lo4s Yeah, instead, they get arrested right off the bat and die in "mysterious circumstances" afterward...
@DgurlSunshine
21 күн бұрын
THE USA SHOULD TAKE NOTES! RUSSIA BOOTED OUT TOXIC CORPORATIONS AND DECEPTIVE VAMPIRE NGOs
EU and Russia
Praying for you Georgians
Putina ikneba chamosuli mand
Gamovanrs rusebs da tan aqet ikit iyurebian xom aravkn martmdvs chem gamkvanilso,ara mwtviton metki
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Не оставляют гордый народ Грузии в покое! Американцы приняли закон об инагентах давным- давно.... Держитесь, благородные христиане, не давайте ковбоям и морским пиратам поставить вас на колени! Святой Георгий, моли ГОСПОДА спасти и помиловать славную христианск державу Грузию!( чтобы не пришлось ей скакать с голой попой, как Финляндия)
@brettervonkanada6102
21 күн бұрын
не учите нас христианству. Мы были христианами за тысячи лет до вас! Для нас вы тоже ковбои... И вы смеете говорить о христианстве, когда ваша страна ТОЛЬКО нападает на другие православные страны? Вы самый большой враг христианства...
Russia is the winner
Hey look at this it's the United States future if Donald Trump gets elected!
@el3ndir97
21 күн бұрын
Lol Nothing really changed last time. its just circus for people
@kentneil7100
21 күн бұрын
Really
@dotdashdotdash
21 күн бұрын
Well it wasn't the last time he was president. So why would it be this time? Meanwhile Biden locks people up for tweets.
@BillyraycyrusIII
21 күн бұрын
@@el3ndir97 Peasants do love a show.
@Doomer1984
11 күн бұрын
Oh no. A president who doesn't start foreign wars at every opportunity, the horror