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The band's announcement comes as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Georgia recently, protesting a parliament-approved law regulating the media and NGOs, which for many echoes similar legislation in Russia. Massive Attack have cancelled one of their upcoming shows in Georgia, in protest of the “government’s attack on basic human rights”. The British band were due to perform on 28 July at the Black Sea Arena, north of Batoumi, the country's second-largest city.

Today (12 June), Robert Del Naja posted a message on the band’s social networks to announce that their decision was taken to protest against human rights violations by the Georgian government. The announcement comes as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Georgia recently, protesting a parliament-approved law regulating the media and NGOs, which for many echoes similar legislation in Russia. The “foreign agents” bill “requires media and NGOs to register as ‘pursuing the interests of a foreign power’ if they receive more than 20 per cent of their funding from abroad.



” In late April, the Shame Movement, a local CSO, wrote to Massive Attack, urging them to acknowledge the “serious and alarming political context” in which their event would take place. In its , the Shame movement cited the Georgian government’s “massive attack” on “Georgia’s civil society, independent media, socially vulnerable groups, LGBTQIA+ community, women, ethnic, religious, and other minori.

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