Salome Chaduneli is a fellow with RFE/RL's Georgian Service.
Thousands of Georgians gathered in front of the parliament in Tbilisi late on May 12 to protest against the so-called "foreign agent" bill, which opponents say would stifle civil society. Activists vowed to stay in the streets overnight ahead of the planned final reading of the bill on May 13.
Riot police used pepper spray against demonstrators and detained several of them in the Georgian capital on April 16.
Thousands of Georgians took to the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, on April 9, to protest against a controversial "foreign agents" bill that Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream, said it will reintroduce.
Restoration work has begun on a fourth-century fortress from Tbilisi's storied architectural and historic past.
The conspicuous participation of young people in Georgia's 2023 anti-government protests has got opposition politicians trying TikTok in an attempt to break the ruling party's 12-year hold on power.
