{"id":110779,"date":"2011-07-04T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=110779"},"modified":"2011-07-04T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T11:10:50","slug":"georgia-parliament-increases-restrictions-on-public-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/04\/georgia-parliament-increases-restrictions-on-public-protests.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Parliament Increases Restrictions on Public Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia&#8217;s parliament on\u00a0Friday increased restrictions on\u00a0public protests in\u00a0response to\u00a0opposition rallies in\u00a0May in\u00a0which two people died, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/01\/us-georgia-protest-idUSTRE7604B220110701\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Reuters<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation says rallies must not come within 20 meters of\u00a0government buildings, prevents small rallies from\u00a0blocking roads, railways and\u00a0highways and\u00a0prohibits the\u00a0possession of\u00a0dangerous objects and\u00a0the consumption of\u00a0alcohol by\u00a0participants.<\/p>\n<p>People under 18 and\u00a0those who are not Georgian citizens cannot act as organizers of\u00a0protests. The\u00a0law also calls for\u00a0protection of\u00a0journalists at\u00a0the rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Two people \u2014 a\u00a0police officer and\u00a0a demonstrator \u2014 were killed during protests in\u00a0May when protesters demanded the\u00a0resignation of\u00a0Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Georgian riot police used teargas, water cannons and\u00a0rubber bullets on\u00a0May 26 to\u00a0halt five days of\u00a0demonstrations, during which at\u00a0least 37 people were injured.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislation says rallies must not come within 20 meters of government buildings, prevents small rallies from blocking roads, railways and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}