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News and analysis on Georgia, the Caucasus region, and beyond | Based in Batumi and Tbilisi, Georgia.

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🔴 Georgia’s imprisoned journalist & #SakharovPrize2025 laureate Mzia Amaglobeli was brought to the Kutaisi Court of Appeals.

🟥 Today the court begins hearing her case: the defense seeks to overturn her 2-year sentence, while prosecutors demand 4–7 years for “attacking a police officer.”
#FreeMzia
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🟥 Journalists, citizens, and friends who came to attend Mzia Amaglobeli’s appeal hearing in Kutaisi are being denied entry to the courthouse yard.

🟥 The session will be held in a small room with space for only 24 people.

#FreeMzia
#RepressionInGeorgia
#TerrorInGeorgia
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November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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🟥 The Prosecutor’s Office has launched criminal proceedings against eight opposition leaders, charging them with crimes against the state.

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#RepressionInGeorgia
#TerrorInGeorgia
#GeorgiaProtests
Prosecutor’s Office Launches Criminal Proceedings Against Eight Opposition Leaders for “Crimes Against the State” - Batumelebi
Georgia Protests • Repression In Georgia •
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November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🟥 GD cites the Shavadze murder case and journalists’ rights violations to justify banning UNM and others.
🔴 The case went to a judge who investigated Shavadze's case as a UNM prosecutor.
🔴 Journalists and outlets named in the complaint face unprecedented oppression under GD.
#RepressionInGeorgia
From Prosecuting for the UNM Government to Banning UNM: Former Prosecutor Chairs Constitutional Court Panel - Batumelebi
Constitutional Court of Georgia • Repression In Georgia •
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November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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🟥 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgian Dream responds to the @ec.europa.eu’s 2025 Enlargement Report, which ranks #Georgia as "the Country in Name Only".

#GeorgiaProtests
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November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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🟥 During the night of Nov 3 in #Tbilisi, journalist for Media Checker Ninia Kakabadze was arrested.

According to witnesses, she was clearly identified as press and performing her journalistic duties at today’s protest.

©️ Photo by @publikage.bsky.social; Nov 3 protest.

#GeorgiaProtests
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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🔴Teacher & civil activist Nino Datashvili has been released from Rustavi Women’s Prison after the court replaced her pretrial detention with ₾5,000 bail, following reports of her critical health condition.
🟥Activists raised the full amount in just 8 minutes.

#GeorgiaProtests #RepressionInGeorgia
Teacher and Civil Activist Nino Datashvili Released on Bail After Months in Pretrial Detention - Batumelebi
Georgia Protests • Repression In Georgia •
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October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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🟥Georgia Prosecutors Move to Replace Nino Datashvili’s Detention with Bail Amid Critical Health Concerns

#GeorgiaProtests
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Georgia Prosecutors Move to Replace Nino Datashvili’s Detention with Bail Amid Critical Health Concerns - Batumelebi
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🟥 Imprisoned Teacher and Civil Activist Nino Datashvili’s Health in Critical Condition, Defense Team Seeks Her Release.

#GeorgiaProtests #RepressionInGeorgia
Imprisoned Teacher and Civil Activist Nino Datashvili’s Health in Critical Condition, Defense Team Seeks Her Release - Batumelebi
Georgia Protests • Repression In Georgia •
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October 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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⭕️The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance reports that 21 people have been charged in connection with the embezzlement of state grants issued by the Rural Development Agency.

#Georgia #Corruption
21 Individuals Charged in Case Involving Embezzlement of Rural Development Agency Grants - Batumelebi
Corruption • Georgia •
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October 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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🟥Former Adjara Gov’t head Tornike Rizhvadze is expected to return to Georgia soon, ex-Maritime Agency chief Aleksi Akhvlediani said before his court hearing. Akhvlediani, charged with negligent firearm storage in connection with Rizhvadze’s July shooting, maintains his innocence.
#Georgia
Former Adjara Government Head Tornike Rizhvadze Expected to Return to Georgia, Says Ex-Maritime Agency Chief
Tornike Rizhvadze •
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October 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🟥The appellate court hearing in journalist Mzia Amaglobeli’s case, scheduled for October 28, has been postponed, with a new date yet to be confirmed.

#FreeMzia
#RepressionInGeorgia
#JournalismIsNotACrime
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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⭕️One year after the parliamentary elections, citizens are holding a protest march in #Tbilisi.

📌 “Until the end - until victory!”
#GeorgiaProtests demand the govt’s resignation, free elections independent from Ivanishvili’s control, and the release of all political prisoners.
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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🟥 Oct.24, Vienna — at the congress dedicated to the 75th anniversary of @globalfreemedia.bsky.social, imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli was honored with the World Press Freedom Hero Award.

🔴Georgian emigrants gathered in Vienna in support of Mzia and all political prisoners.

#FreeMzia
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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🟥 Oct 24, Vienna — On the 285th day of her unlawful imprisonment, Mzia Amaglobeli, founder of Batumelebi/Netgazeti, was honored with the 2025 World Press Freedom Hero Award alongside six other journalists. The award was accepted by Tamar Rukhadze, deputy director of the outlets.
#FreeMzia #Georgia
მზია ამაღლობელს ავსტრიაში, ქალაქ ვენაში 2025 წლის მსოფლიო პრესის თავისუფლების გმირის ჯილდო გადაეცა
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October 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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⭕️Tamar Lortkipanidze, 48, who climbed onto a patrol car during the Oct. 22 protest in #Tbilisi, has been formally charged by the Prosecutor’s Office with violence and attacking a police vehicle.
💢Charges carry a potential prison sentence of four to seven years.
#GeorgiaProtests #RepressionInGeorgia
October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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📌 Former Georgian PM and ex-chair of Georgian Dream, Irakli Garibashvili, has been charged with money laundering but not detained - while over 150 political prisoners remain in the country, some jailed for a slap or possessing a medical face mask.

#Georgia #RepressionInGeorgia
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🔴 At least 25 people were detained on Rustaveli Ave, #Tbilisi on the 329th day of #GeorgiaProtests.

Among those detained are doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili, “Unity” founder Nikoloz Shurgaia, journalist Lika Basilaia-Shavgulidze, and activists Ilia Glonti, Isako Devdze, and others.
#RepressionInGeorgia
October 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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🟥 October 22, 2025 — #GeorgiaProtests Day 329, #Tbilisi

While police were trying to clear the road of protesters, a young woman climbed onto a police car in defiance.

Soon after, police arrested her along with at least 11 others.
October 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🟥 October 22, 2025 — #GeorgiaProtests Day 329, #Tbilisi

Police are arresting peaceful protesters attempting to block traffic on Rustaveli Ave as part of the daily demonstrations demanding the release of political prisoners and new parliamentary elections.

#RepressionInGeorgia
October 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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🟥 Georgia’s unlawfully imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been named laureate of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, shared with Andrzej Poczobut of #Belarus.

🔴“Imprisoned Journalists Fighting for Your Freedom and Ours"
#RepressionInGeorgia
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🟥 Georgia’s unlawfully imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been named laureate of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, shared with Andrzej Poczobut of #Belarus.

🔴“Imprisoned Journalists Fighting for Your Freedom and Ours"

#JournalismIsNotACrime #RepressionInGeorgia
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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🚨 In #Tbilisi, around 10 police officers stopped and searched two young women - simply because one of them was wearing a medical face mask.
Police finally let them go - only after one of them took off her medical mask to show her dental treatment and their K-pop concert tickets.
#RepressionInGeorgia
October 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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🟥14 Arrested in Past Two Days; One Detainee Sent for Compulsory Treatment at Mental Health and Drug Prevention Center - MIA reports

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#GeorgiaProtests
#RepressionInGeorgia
14 Arrested in Past Two Days - One Detainee Sent for Compulsory Treatment at Mental Health and Drug Prevention Center - Batumelebi
Georgia Protests • Repression In Georgia •
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October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🟥Formula TV journalist Tsira Zhvania has been arrested on allegations of “blocking the road” during #GeorgiaProtests on Rustaveli Ave in #Tbilisi.

Zhvania is the third Formula TV journalist detained on similar charges in recent days.
#RepressionInGeorgia
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Tsira Zhvania, Third Journalist of Formula TV, Arrested for Allegedly Blocking Road During Protests in Tbilisi - Batumelebi
Georgia Protests • Press Freedom • Repression In Georgia •
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October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM