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10/ Criminal Code amendments:

Repeated violations within one year escalate to criminal penalties:

First repeat: imprisonment up to 1 year

Further repeat: imprisonment up to 2 years

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

9/ Ministry powers:

The Ministry of Internal Affairs can terminate an assembly or demonstration if mass violations occur (e.g., masks, pyrotechnics).

If participants do not comply, law enforcement may disperse them using measures allowed by Georgian and international law.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

8/ Participate in a demonstration terminated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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7/ Stricter detention: Administrative detention up to 60 days can be imposed if demonstrators:

Possess firearms, explosives, flammable or radioactive substances, cold weapons, or pyrotechnics

Possess objects/substances intended to harm participants or others.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

6/ Fines:

5,000 GEL for participants

15,000 GEL for organizers

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5/ Penalties:

Up to 15 days of administrative imprisonment for participants

Up to 20 days if the person is an organizer

Exceptions: Pregnant women, mothers with children under 12, minors under 18, and severely disabled individuals are exempt from imprisonment.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

4/ Covering the face with a mask or other means; Possession of tear gas; Intentionally obstructing movement of people or transport; Setting up temporary structures that hinder police in maintaining order; Partially or fully blocking roadways if the rally can be held elsewhere.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

3/ A new Part 10 is added to Article 174 of the Administrative Offenses Code. It allows administrative imprisonment for participants of gatherings or demonstrations in the following cases:

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

2/ Members of the Georgian Dream parliamentary team are pushing accelerated amendments to both the Administrative Offenses and Criminal Codes, further restricting demonstrations.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

1/ Thread 🧵: Georgian Dream seeks to tighten laws against demonstrators

#GeorgiaProtests
#TerrorinGeorgia

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

8/ He added that the full list of those targeted would be disclosed once the claim is submitted to the Constitutional Court “very soon.”

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7/ Kobakhidze said that anyone who was part of the “bloody regime” before 2012, or who later joined that political force in what he called “sabotage against the country,” would be affected.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

6/ Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said the planned ban “will not apply to just one or two parties.”

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Founding or joining a political party;

Leading a party or holding political office

If the Constitutional Court upholds such a claim, those individuals would be barred from political engagement and public service.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

4/ Under the draft law, anyone connected to a party that seeks to overthrow the constitutional order, undermine the country’s independence, violate territorial integrity, promote war or violence, or incite hatred could be prohibited from:

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

3/ Who could be banned from politics? 👇

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2/ The amendments apply to the Law on the Constitutional Court, the Election Code, the Criminal Code, and the Law on Political Unions.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 5h

1/ The Georgian Dream–led parliament has launched a fast-tracked review of a legislative package that would ban certain individuals from political activity, holding public office, or participating in elections.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 1d

4/ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visited occupied Abkhazia on Sept 28, 2022, met with de facto leader Aslan Bzhania and said that he “discussed Abkhazian problems with their "elder brother", Vladimir Putin.”

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3/ The press release says Kobakhidze thanked Belarus for its “support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” congratulated Rogashchuk on starting his diplomatic mission in Georgia, and wished him success.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 1d

2/ According to the Georgian Dream government, the Ambassador delivered “a letter of congratulations from the President of Belarus on the successful holding of Georgia’s local self-government elections.”

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 1d

1/ Georgian Dream PM Irakli Kobakhidze met with Belarusian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Nikolai Rogashchuk.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 1d

Protests continue in Georgia. The slogan of today's march is "You cannot capture Georgia."

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 319

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 2d

2/ “I don’t know to what extent the EU capitals realize that the ‘peace project’ is increasingly resembling a "war project". The EU leaders themselves should discuss this. However, one fact remains- Brussels is behind the street wars in Tbilisi,” said Shalva Papuashvili.

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 2d

1/ The Chairman of the GD Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, attacked the EU again today.

He wrote on FB that “Brussels is behind the street wars in Tbilisi.”

This was Papuashvili’s response to the Orban's initiative to collect signatures against Brussels’ so-called “war plan.”

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