Georgia's parliament is expected to give final approval to a controversial "foreign agents" law that sparked weeks of mass street protests, the BBC has reported.
Critics have said that such a law, considered "Russia's law", could be used to suppress dissent, demanding that the government reverse the law's passage. A mass protest has been announced in front of the doors of Parliament, while the country's prime minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, has vowed that the law will pass.
According to him, if the authorities withdraw from this law then Georgia "will lose its sovereignty and could easily have the fate of Ukraine".
On the third night of the protest, thousands of demonstrators, most of them students, gathered outside the parliament in Tbilisi and demanded the law be dropped. Some of the protesters clashed with the police.
This draft law states that independent organizations and media that receive more than 20 percent of funding from foreign donors must be registered as organizations "carrying the interests of a foreign power."
They will also be monitored by the Ministry of Justice and could be forced to release "sensitive information" or face fines of up to $9.400.
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Protesters are worried the legislation will be used by the executive to crack down on opponents and dampen Georgia's hopes of joining the European Union.
Georgia had declared independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
