{"id":"GEO-CAMP-001","label":"Georgian Dream foreign agent and grants criminalization arc (2024-2026)","notes":"THIRD-COUNTRY EXPANSION — anchor campaign for Georgia. ACCELERATION METRIC: Georgia completed \"Russian trajectory\" (registration → criminalization) in under 12 months; Russia took 7 years. Analytically significant for comparative work. KEY STRUCTURAL DISTINCTION from Western Balkans: no ethnic/sovereignty framing — Georgian Dream uses \"Global War Party\" (NF-06) and \"NGO Clan\" (NF-02) frames. No \"colonial governor\" equivalent. REGIONAL COORDINATION SIGNAL: April 3 2024 — RS (BiH) published revised foreign agent draft SAME DAY as Georgian Parliament introduced law. Kyrgyzstan April 2. Sources: civil.ge (primary archive); transparency.ge; Human Rights Watch; Amnesty International; OCCRP; Social Justice Center Georgia.","country":"Georgia","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","report_ids":[],"incident_ids":["GEO-001","GEO-002","GEO-003","GEO-004","GEO-005","GEO-006","GEO-007","GEO-008","GEO-009","GEO-010","GEO-011","GEO-012","GEO-013","GEO-014","GEO-015","GEO-016","GEO-017","GEO-018","GEO-019","GEO-020","GEO-021","GEO-022","GEO-023","GEO-024"],"needs_review":false,"trigger_type":"TR-04: Electoral Event","end_date_text":"Ongoing","phase_pattern":"Authorization (Ivanishvili Apr 2024) → Legislative execution (May 2024 foreign influence law) → Administrative operationalization (ACB/Anti-Corruption Bureau Aug 2024+) → Escalation (Grants Law Apr 2025) → Criminalization (March 4 2026)","trigger_event":"October 2024 parliamentary elections — Ivanishvili April 29 2024 speech explicitly links law to pre-election exhaustion of opposition and CSOs","incident_count":24,"start_date_text":"11/12/2020","authorization_actor":"Bidzina Ivanishvili (Georgian Dream founder)","institutional_consequence":"Full civil society financing criminalized without government approval; bank account freezes on 7+ organizations; criminal summons issued to directors; ECHR case filed by 120+ NGOs and 16 media outlets; EU accession suspended; USAID suspended"}
