#Batumi singer Archil Beridze was announced as a candidate on the Georgian Dream #GEOElections2024 list on August 15. Just 5 days earlier, Beridze held a solo concert at the Batumi Drama Theater, funded with tens of thousands of GEL from the #Adjara budget batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/news/542001/

🟥 On July 19, #Batumi Vice Mayor Sopo Khalvashi held a concert at a restaurant in a 15-story building constructed illegally. The event also featured musician Zviad Bolkvadze, artistic director of the Batumi Music Center, a legal entity under public law 📌batumelebi.ge/news/542052/

Several complaints have been filed with the Constitutional Court of #Georgia to overturn #ForeignAgentsLaw, which Georgian Dream passed despite widespread public protests. The 🇬🇪President, CSOs, media organizations, and the parliamentary opposition, are demanding the law's repeal

🟥GD MPs are not attending the ongoing Constitutional Court session on the admissibility of the constitutional appeal against #ForeignAgentsLaw. Instead, Parliament employees Levan Kasradze, Levan Ghavtadze, and Kristine Kuprava are representing the 🇬🇪Parliament. #RussianLaw

🔴First Deputy Minister of Justice told the Constitutional Court that only 233 NGOs have applied for registration under #RussianLaw's "foreign agents" registry, representing less than 1% of the existing NGOs that fall under the scope of the law. #Georgia 📌netgazeti.ge/news/739880/

🟥 “#RussianLaw is Killing Free Media” read the T-shirts of media representatives on the final day of the hearing against the #ForeignAgentsLaw. 🇬🇪 Constitutional Court must decide on the appeal’s admissibility and whether to suspend the law’s enforcement during the proceedings.

🗣️ “I’ve used it, and it seems I’ll be using it many more times,” said the linguist when asked by parliament representatives during the 🇬🇪Constitutional Court hearing on the #RussianLaw if she had ever used the word “traitor.” Her response was met with applause. #ForeignAgentsLaw

1/3 🧵 🟥Shame Movement Retracts Foreign Agent Registration Decision After Backlash; Director Resigns netgazeti.ge/news/740097/?f…

⭕️MP Aleko Elisashvili claims to have identified one of the policemen involved in a physical assault on him as a high-ranking official in the criminal police. Acc/to Elisashvili, the officer, Zakro Chokheli, was recognized from footage aired by TV PIRVELI. netgazeti.ge/news/740237/

🟥 Starting September 3, the Ministry of Justice of #Georgia is authorized to forcibly register organizations in the 'foreign agents' registry under the #RussianLaw, impose fines, or initiate what is known as 'Monitoring.' netgazeti.ge/life/740318/

🟥 At a press conference on September 4, Irakli Kobakhidze once again insulted the President of #Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, and referred to her as an "agent". 📌batumelebi.ge/slideshow/5435…