{"id":4273,"date":"2025-12-12T16:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:43:13","slug":"georgia-repressive-laws-effectively-criminalize-peaceful-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/12\/georgia-repressive-laws-effectively-criminalize-peaceful-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia: Repressive Laws Effectively Criminalize Peaceful Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Human Rights Watch reports that the Georgian government has adopted a series of repressive laws that, combined with abusive policing, effectively criminalize peaceful protests and suppress dissent. These legislative changes impose massive fines\u2014up to ten times higher and equivalent to criminal penalties\u2014while vastly expanding police powers, extending detentions, and classifying routine protest activity as a felony punishable by years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 4, 2025. <strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/12\/04\/georgia-repressive-laws-effectively-criminalize-peaceful-protests\">hrw.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch reports that the Georgian government has adopted a series of repressive laws that, combined with abusive policing, effectively criminalize peaceful protests and suppress dissent. These legislative changes impose massive fines\u2014up to ten times higher and equivalent to criminal penalties\u2014while vastly expanding police powers, extending detentions, and classifying routine protest activity as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}