Georgia protests: riot police try to disperse scores of protesters after ‘foreign agents’ bill passed into law – live

Protesters in Tbilisi treated by medics after bill condemned as Kremlin-inspired act of repression was passed into law

Petre Tsiskarishvili, a secretary-general of the main opposition United National Movement and a former Georgian MP, said the election in October election is when the Georgian public should “basically go on a referendum” and make a final decision which way we want to go, the BBC reported.

“What is the aspiration of the Georgian people? Is it the European integration or these Russia style laws and this government that initiates and tables the legislation that copies the Russian style authoritarianism.”

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