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Hundreds of Georgian NGOs pledge to defy ‘foreign influence’ law

Demonstrators hold a rally in Tbilisi to protest against a bill on 'foreign agents' [File: Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters]

Hundreds of NGOs in Georgia have decided to defy the country’s controversial “foreign influence” law.

In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, some 200 nongovernmental organisations declared that they will not obey the legislation, which has been criticised for mirroring Russian laws used to clamp down on dissent and threatening Georgia’s ambitions of joining the European Union.

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