On July 17, 121 local Georgian civil society and media organizations filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court challenging the Foreign Agents Law and calling for its repeal.

"The constitutional lawsuit once again clearly confirms that this law harms everyone's right to join with like-minded people to do public useful work and help other people," said the joint statement by the CSOs and media organizations. They added: "By adopting the Russian law, the authorities are creating a hostile and degrading environment that threatens the enjoyment of association, expression and other rights and freedoms."

"We reiterate that we will not live under the rules of the Russian law. We will not obey it and we will use all possible domestic and international mechanisms to prevent its implementation until the law is unconditionally repealed," the statement concluded.

On July 15, President Salome Zourabichvili also filed a separate lawsuit to repeal the law. In addition, opposition members of parliament are preparing a third separate constitutional complaint. All of the appeals emphasize the law's incompatibility with Article 78 of the Georgian Constitution, which requires all constitutional bodies to take necessary measures to ensure Georgia's full integration into the EU and NATO, as well as other constitutional rights to freedom of association and expression.