People have flooded the streets of Georgia's capital Tbilisi against the passing of a new foreign influence law. This follows three weeks of protest after the bill was tabled, reports Brenna Dempsey.
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On November 9, two days after Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Soviet republic of Georgias pro-US president, ordered riot police to club and tear-gas anti-government protesters in the capital Tbilisi, Georgian officials issued arrest warrants for two opposition leaders on charges of espionage. Hospitals reported that nearly 600 protesters sought medical treatment after the police assault.
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On November 4, Mikhail Saakashvili, the pro-US president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, accused Russia of fomenting mass protests against him. Saakashvilis remarks were his first response to three days of protests in the capital Tbilisi in which some 100,000 people a tenth of the citys population demanded his resignation.