{"id":132845,"date":"2024-12-03T13:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T06:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132845"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T06:51:03","slug":"georgia-thousands-protest-against-new-bill-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132845","title":{"rendered":"Georgia: Thousands protest against new bill | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uh1uhBs81E8?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>For the last 10 days, thousands of Georgians &#8211; many in their late teens and early 20s &#8211; have been bringing the traffic of the capital, Tbilisi, to a standstill.<\/p>\n<p>They demand that the government scrap plans to introduce a controversial bill &#8211; dubbed the &#8220;foreign agent&#8221; law &#8211; many say is inspired by authoritarian legislation neighbouring Russia uses to crush dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill proposed by the ruling Georgian Dream party, NGOs and independent media that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign donors would have to register as organisations &#8220;bearing the interests of a foreign power&#8221;.<br \/>\nThey would also be monitored by the Justice Ministry and could be forced to share sensitive information &#8211; or face hefty fines of up to 25,000 GEL ($9,400; \u00a37,500).<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Georgia #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uh1uhBs81E8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 10 days, thousands of Georgians &#8211; many in their late teens and early 20s &#8211; have been bringing the traffic of the capital, Tbilisi, to a standstill. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132845\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}