The former Georgian Minister of European Integration Alex Petriashvili has been arrested along with other people during the protests that took place on Sunday afternoon in the capital, Tbilisi, against the ‘foreign agents’ law, which according to its detractors puts the possible entry of the country into the EU. Petriashvili has been accused of vandalism and contempt for authority during the demonstrations that took place the day before in the Georgian capital and in which clashes occurred between some of the attendees and agents of the security forces, as has been reported. reported the News Georgia portal. “It is an illegal detention,” denounced Petriashvili’s wife, television presenter Eka Mishveladze, who has questioned the role of the Police during the protests. “Overall, everything he did was illegal,” she said. Thousands of people have gathered around Parliament to demand the repeal of controversial legislation, supposedly inspired by Russian laws, and whose approval was already questioned by the EU, which warned that it “compromised” its European path. According to his critics, the ‘foreign agents’ law would limit the ability of civil society and the media to operate freely. The rule requires all organizations, media outlets and similar entities that receive at least 20 percent of their financing from abroad to register as “agents of foreign influence.”
