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After days of mass protests, lawmakers voted to officially drop the draft law that would have forced media outlets and NGOs that receive 20% of their funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents".
Georgia's parliament on Friday dropped plans for a "foreign agents" bill that had triggered a major domestic political crisis and seen tens of thousands take to the streets in protest.
Protest leaders say the rallies will continue until the bill is totally abandoned, while some are also calling for the government to resign.
Mass protests took place on Thursday across Israel after its parliament passed a controversial law that demonstrators claim brings the country's judicial system, and democracy, into disrepute.
Street protests forced Georgia’s parliament to back down on a bill aimed at making groups with overseas funding register as foreign agents, a mimick say critics of the law that’s on the books in Russia. We’ll ask about a government there that’s on paper pro-European… but whose main backer first made his fortune in Russia. Why did lawmakers bend? What next for Georgia?
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