The Georgian version of the Foreign Act Act contains elements of the American law of the vicarage, but its critics draw attention to the possible limitation of freedom of expression.
In the first reading, the Georgian Parliament approved the draft new law on foreign influence, which is prepared according to the model of the US Act on the Registration of Foreign Agents (parish). He informed the Meduza portal on Tuesday, referring to the tabula, writes TASR.
The petitioner and deputy for the government party Georgian Dream Archil Gordunladze described the proposal of legislation as “literal translation of the American law.
The US Law imposes on lobbyists and lawyers to notify that they work on behalf of foreign interests, but media organizations are exempt from this obligation.
In Georgia, the proposed law, which was published on the Parliament’s website, February 24, is, according to the media there, is an almost accurate copy of the American – even contains translations of terms that do not have an equivalent in the Georgian context, such as “Congress”.
The defendants of the legislative change argue that its aim is only to silence the public criticism of the Georgian Law on Foreign Affairs of Similar Russian Legislation, which the ruling party pushed through last May – despite mass protests, the sentence of the President and the Refusing Attituent of International Partners Tbilisi.
The original legislation requires any independent non -governmental or media organization in Georgia to be registered as “an organization watching the interests of a foreign power” if it receives at least a fifth of the funds from abroad for its funding. Georgia caused mass protests.
