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Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Georgia on Thursday evening to protest again against the controversial draft law on “foreign influence”, passed in the second reading by the Georgian Parliament, although criticized by the United States and the European Union, AFP and Reuters report .

Unlike the previous days, the rally is taking place on Thursday in two different places: in front of the Parliament, a traditional place for demonstrations, and in Heroes’ Square, where there is a monument to the memory of Georgian soldiers who died in battle.

Thousands of protesters on Thursday blocked a key intersection in Tbilisi, Heroes’ Square, a central traffic hub between the city’s neighborhoods.

Police began arresting protesters

The police have already arrested some of the protesters who blocked the road leading to the Square and used stun spray, in a move that seems indigo to the previous days. As a sign of solidarity with those arrested, the demonstrators in front of the Parliament marched towards Heroes’ Square.

Protesters chanted “No to Russia!” and carried placards with the faces of deputies from the ruling Georgian Dream party, whom they call “traitors”.

“We are together to show the puppets of the Kremlin that we will not accept a government that goes against the will of the Georgian people,” one of the demonstrators, Guiorgui Loladze, 27, from Kutaisi, the third-largest city, told AFP in Georgia.

Georgia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a second reading of a draft law on “foreign agents” that was criticized as Kremlin-inspired.

The bill, which would require organizations that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence, has sparked a political crisis in the South Caucasus country.

The Caucasian country has been hit by anti-government protests since April 9 after the ruling Georgian Dream party reintroduced the text, seen as an obstacle to the country’s aspirations to join the EU.

In the previous days, tens of thousands of demonstrators had already gathered in front of the Parliament to protest. On Tuesday, police dispersed the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets and detained nearly 60 people.

On Wednesday, the European Union condemned police “violence” and called on Georgia to “stay the course” towards the EU.

In December, the EU granted Georgia official candidate status, but said Tbilisi should carry out reforms to its judicial and electoral systems, increase media freedom and limit the power of oligarchs before the formal launch of negotiations.