Georgia withdraws a bill on 'foreign agents' after several days of protests against it amid criticism the draft represented an authoritarian shift
The protesters are demanding authorities drop the bill on"transparency of foreign funding," which critics say mirrors a law used in Russia to force media and dissenting groups to shut down.
Georgia's ruling party has announced it was halting plans to introduce controversial "foreign agent" legislation that had triggered massive protests in the Caucasus country. The plans sparked two days of large-scale protest in the ex-Soviet country that aspires to join the European Union and NATO.
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