Event Overview
Georgia's "foreign agent" bill threatens to stigmatize and marginalize journalists and civil society organizations critical of the country's rulers.
On March 7, the Georgian parliament passed the first reading of the government’s new “foreign agent” bill, prompting thousands of Georgian citizens to face off against riot police in defense of the country’s democratic freedoms and Euro-Atlantic ambitions. The proposed law threatens to stigmatize and marginalize journalists and civil society organizations critical of the country’s rulers, which activists have found too reminiscent of Russia’s own 2012 foreign agent law, provoking the country’s most severe political crisis in years.
