Georgia police use tear gas and water cannon against stone and petrol bomb-hurling protesters as thousands take to streets in capital Tbilisi to oppose controversial 'foreign agents' bill
Police face stones and petrol bombs during violent protests over a controversial law that would require groups receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from overseas to register as"foreign agents" or face penalty.
At one point a protester opposed to the law, which would impose registration requirements on media and NGOs with foreign ties, threw a petrol bomb at a cordon of riot police on Tuesday, according to television footage.People suffering from the effects of tear gas were being treated on the steps outside the parliament building.
Late on Tuesday, police began mass detention of people protesting the bill after dispersing demonstration near parliament building, reports said. Speaking in Berlin earlier on Tuesday, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Garibashvili reaffirmed his support for the law, saying the proposed provisions on foreign agents met "European and global standards".
"Nobody needs this law ... everyone who has voted for this law has violated the constitution," she said. Thousands of people, some waving EU and Ukrainian flags, stood outside parliament and listened as speakers denounced the law. Earlier, the law had comfortably passed its first parliamentary reading, Georgian media outlets reported.
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