Georgian police arrested 63 demonstrators during a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters who gathered in opposition on April 30 to the controversial foreign agents law, said Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze at a briefing on May 1. The bill, which must be passed in three readings before it becomes law, would require organizations that receive foreign funding to be labeled as “foreign agents.” The law mirrors repressive Russian laws used to crack down on Kremlin regime critics and is popularly referred to in Georgia as the “Russian law.” For the past two weeks, thousan…