No tents, no stages, no signs: Georgian Dream's war on protest

The Caucasus Digest · Oct 5, 2023 · 44m

Georgia's Parliament adopted on Thursday evening amendments to the law on protests that would ban the erection of temporary structures – tents and stages included. Critics of the amendments have argued that the new regulations would stifle freedom of assembly in the country and have already begun dubbing it the 'new Russian law' in reference to the foreign agents law, which triggered a wave of massive protests that forced the ruling Georgian Dream party to drop it.

This week, we spoke to OC Media journalist and co-director Mariam Nikuradze about the conviction of peaceful protesters holding…