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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Georgian president refuses to sign anti-LGBTQ+ rights bill into law

Salome Zourabichvili speaking at a microphone
Salome Zourabichvili has been increasingly at odds with the ruling party, Georgian Dream. Photograph: Radek Pietruszka/EPA

Georgia’s president has refused to sign into law a bill aimed at severely curtailing LGBTQ+ rights, weeks after the controversial legislation was passed by the country’s parliament.

Last month Georgia’s parliament was heavily criticised after it approved the legislation, which sets out sweeping bans on same-sex marriages, adoptions by same-sex couples and curbs on gender-affirming treatments.

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