Georgia’s Foreign Agent Law Live | Parliament prepares to overturn veto

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▲Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the centre of Tbilisi on Sunday. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media

Legal committee hearings to discuss overturning the president’s veto of the foreign agent law have begun in Georgia’s parliament.

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2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Georgian Dream opens new parliament in apparent breach of constitution

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Georgian Dream inaugurated the 11th parliament on Monday without any opposition members in attendance, amidst ongoing street protests and in apparent violation of the country’s constitution. On Monday, the ruling Georgian Dream party unilaterally validated the mandates of all 150 MPs, ignoring the explicit dissent of 61 opposition members who were absent, some of them protesting outside the parliament alongside other demonstrators in Tbilisi. A number of the country’s top legal and constitut

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2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Live updates | Georgian parliament inaugurates first session amid ongoing protests

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Georgia’s parliament is launching following 26 October’s disputed parliamentary elections with the opposition set to boycott.

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ECHR registers case against Georgia’s foreign agent law

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has registered a case against the foreign agent law adopted amidst mass protests in Georgia, according to the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA). The controversial foreign agent law has been sent to the ECHR for review on behalf 136 civil organisations in Georgia, including GYLA, as well as four private Georgian citizens. On Wednesday, GYLA cited six separate articles of the European Convention on Human Rights that the law allegedly violat

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2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Editorial | Georgia’s rigged election

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Georgia’s parliamentary elections were neither free nor fair, and with overwhelming evidence that the vote was rigged, the elections, and the incoming government, cannot be considered legitimate. When Georgians went to the polls on 26 October to elect a new parliament, they did so in an environment of fear mongering and intimidation, and one with a myriad of new repressive laws in place. The ruling party centred its campaign on their claim that an opposition victory would mean war with Russi