Critics are likening the bill to legislation in neighbouring russia, used to stifle dissent and silence criticism of the kremlin. They say it will make it harder if not impossible for georgia tojoin the european union. Georgians have been assembling for the past month, trying to sway the Governing Coalition against passing the legislation ultimately to no avail. Lets hear now from two protesters on why they decided to take a stand. I feel like this law is going to destroy the European Future that my country has been fighting for and the values that our ancestors have been fighting for for ages, Fighting Forfor ages, basically. If you look at georgian and literature, as depicted everywhere. Translation depicted everywhere. Tuna mom depicted everywhere. Translation . , translation our government is t in to translation our government is trying to pass translation our government is trying to pass a translation our government is trying to pass a Law Translation our government is trying to p
That receives more than 20 of its funding from abroad being subject to stronger government scrutiny. The white house has called on georgias president to veto the law, saying it is similar to measures seen in russia. Rayhan demytrie is in the Georgian Capital Tbilisi for us. Georgians are waking up to the first day since their countrys lawmakers in the building behind me adopted this controversial law that people fear will stifle georgias democracy. We are expecting students and youth to come back to this street outside Parliament Later today. A lot of students from a number of universities here in the capital tbilisi are on strike. They are not attending their lectures. Opposition mps are also boycotting parliament from today and we have a number of european politicians visiting georgia. They held a meeting with the president of this country to discuss ways, how to save georgias european future. Pressure coming from europe, also from the us in terms of trying to get the georgian presid
Translation they will be | arrested, they will be judged and they will be punished commensurate to the crime that they have committed. This is the man who was freed in the bloody assault 30 year old mohammed amra, a convicted local burglar. But he was also the suspect in a fatal kidnapping to georgia, where thousands of protestors remain on the streets and around parliament after mps on tuesday approved a divisive Foreign Agent law. Under the bill ngos and independent media that receive more than 20 of their funding from foreign donors would have to register as organisations bearing the interests of a foreign power. Critics are likening the bill to legislation in neighbouring russia used to stiffle dissent and silence criticism of the kremlin. Earlier, there were clashes with riot police, when protesters tried to break through metal barriers near the parliament building. Rayhan demytrie has more. Earlier, there were clashes with riot police, when protesters tried to break through metal
We see a lot of repeated violations here. Inspectors seeing the same thing again and again. Why cant those separately rather than grouping issues together . Yeah, that was something that we put a lot of thought into and we were actually much more conservative than lawyers would be about this. When youve seen similar cases in the us, the violations often get into the thousands because they will count every hour or every day that violations continued, whereas we just looked at every event. Given that, 189 we think is a pretty large number. Not everyone would agree the scale of these environmental breaches is egregious. If you look at each individual plant, youre probably only looking at one or two breaches of varying degrees of magnitude each year. For a large industrialfacility in the uk, thats something similar to what ive seen in the various businesses that ive looked at over the years. So i wanted to show you this database, but when we showed angus the evidence, while some violations