Tbilisi. According to the Public Defender, the legislative package restricts freedom of creativity. It should be emphasized that recent developments, in particular the initiatives aimed at criminalizing insult of religious feelings and the case of Aiisa, indicate that there is a tendency of restricting freedom of expression in the country, which is extremely unfortunate.

The abovementioned draft law basically repeats the out-of-date edition of the existing, so-called ''dead norm'' of the law, which is incompatible with freedom of expression. It should be noted that, at present, no agency is entitled to restrict freedom of creativity based on the abovementioned norm, while the main novelty of the draft law is formulation of the restriction as a new law and reference to the enforcement mechanism, which makes it applicable in practice.

Source: ombudsman.ge