{"id":29526,"date":"2023-03-06T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/06\/georgia-parliament-lawmakers-exchange-blows-over-foreign-agents-law\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:26:17","slug":"georgia-parliament-lawmakers-exchange-blows-over-foreign-agents-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=29526","title":{"rendered":"Georgia parliament: Lawmakers exchange blows over &#8216;foreign agents&#8217; law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Lawmakers in Georgia fought during a parliamentary committee hearing into proposed legislation that seeks to force some organisations to list themselves as &#8216;foreign agents&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It would apply to organisations that receive more than a fifth of their funds from abroad, and compel them to submit to monitoring from the authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Critics have been protesting outside parliament and say the legislation is modelled on Russian legislation designed to curtail freedom of speech and stifle dissent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-64866068?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Lawmakers in Georgia fought during a parliamentary committee hearing into proposed legislation that seeks to force some organisations to list themselves as &#8216;foreign agents&#8217;.\u00a0 It would apply to organisations &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}