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⭕️On July 4, the Batumi City Court is holding a hearing in the criminal case against Mzia Amaglobeli | მზია ამაღლობელი - journalist, CEO and co-founder of Batumelebi and Netgazeti. Today, the defense witness being questioned is Eter Turadze, editor-in-chief of Batumelebi. #RepressionInGeorgia

⭕️On July 4, the Batumi City Court is holding a hearing in the criminal case against <a href="/MAmaghlobeli/">Mzia Amaglobeli | მზია ამაღლობელი</a> - journalist, CEO and co-founder of Batumelebi and <a href="/netgazeti/">Netgazeti</a>.

Today, the defense witness being questioned is <a href="/ETuradze/">Eter Turadze</a>, editor-in-chief of Batumelebi.
#RepressionInGeorgia
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🔻 “Spray them, kill them” - loud shouting and vulgar language can be heard in the video presented by the Prosecutor’s Office as evidence in the case against 11 pro-European protesters. 🟥 Defense attorney Omar Purtseladze drew attention to the audio and stated that it

🔻 “Spray them, kill them” - loud shouting and vulgar language can be heard in the video presented by the Prosecutor’s Office as evidence in the case against 11 pro-European protesters.

🟥 Defense attorney Omar Purtseladze drew attention to the audio and stated that it
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📢Georgian Dream-appointed president, Mikheil Kavelashvili, is promising pardons to imprisoned politicians - but under one condition: ‼️He wants opposition parties to agree to participate in the upcoming local elections. #RepressionInGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests #Georgia

📢Georgian Dream-appointed president, Mikheil Kavelashvili, is promising pardons to imprisoned politicians - but under one condition:

‼️He wants opposition parties to agree to participate in the upcoming local elections.
#RepressionInGeorgia 
#GeorgiaProtests
#Georgia
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🔴 Former head of the Adjara Government, Tornike Rizhvadze, has been hospitalized with a gunshot wound. According to Georgian Dream propaganda media outlets, he allegedly attempted suicide and left a letter found on him by medical personnel. However, the clinic where Rizhvadze is

🔴 Former head of the Adjara Government, Tornike Rizhvadze, has been hospitalized with a gunshot wound. According to Georgian Dream propaganda media outlets, he allegedly attempted suicide and left a letter found on him by medical personnel. However, the clinic where Rizhvadze is
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🚨For 24 years, ბათუმელები • Batumelebi.ge & Netgazeti have stood by those in need. Now we need you - to keep up the fight. With Mzia Amaglobeli | მზია ამაღლობელი jailed, laws weaponized, and journalists attacked, #Georgia’s free press is being strangled. We’re risking everything to keep going - but we

🚨For 24 years, <a href="/Batumelebi_ge/">ბათუმელები • Batumelebi.ge</a> &amp; <a href="/netgazeti/">Netgazeti</a> have stood by those in need.

Now we need you - to keep up the fight.

With <a href="/MAmaghlobeli/">Mzia Amaglobeli | მზია ამაღლობელი</a> jailed, laws weaponized, and journalists attacked, #Georgia’s free press is being strangled.

We’re risking everything to keep going - but we
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🗣️"I’m not afraid, but an inner fear still troubles me. I’m afraid of defeat - I don’t want my generation or the next to grow up under a dictatorship," - Nineteen-year-old prisoner of conscience Saba Jikia addressed his friends before being sentenced to 4.5 years in prison 🚨On

🗣️"I’m not afraid, but an inner fear still troubles me. I’m afraid of defeat - I don’t want my generation or the next to grow up under a dictatorship," - Nineteen-year-old prisoner of conscience Saba Jikia addressed his friends before being sentenced to 4.5 years in prison

🚨On
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🚇 #Tbilisi Metro will purchase 111 new train cars from #China’s state-owned CRRC, Mayor Kaladze announced. The tender was won by GT Group, in cooperation with the Chinese manufacturer. Backed by the AIIB, the project will cost hundreds of millions of GEL. #Metro #Georgia

🚇 #Tbilisi Metro will purchase 111 new train cars from #China’s state-owned CRRC, Mayor Kaladze announced. 
The tender was won by GT Group, in cooperation with the Chinese manufacturer.
Backed by the AIIB, the project will cost hundreds of millions of GEL.
#Metro #Georgia
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🟥July 11 marks six months since the unlawful detention of Mzia Amaglobeli | მზია ამაღლობელი, founding CEO of Batumelebi and Netgazeti. She has now spent half a year in illegal custody, and her eyesight has significantly deteriorated. 🟥Listen to Eter Turadze, co-founder of the company and

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🔴Joint statement of 11 July 2025 by the Foreign Ministers of Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union on

🔴Joint statement of 11 July 2025 by the Foreign Ministers of Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union on
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▪️Zura Japaridze’s Mother Passes Away While He Remains Imprisoned Opposition political leader Zura Japaridze, recently convicted for refusing to appear before a parliamentary commission investigating alleged crimes under the former United National Movement (UNM) government, has

▪️Zura Japaridze’s Mother Passes Away While He Remains Imprisoned 

Opposition political leader Zura Japaridze, recently convicted for refusing to appear before a parliamentary commission investigating alleged crimes under the former United National Movement (UNM) government, has
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🗣️“Mzia, in your darkest moment we stand with you and we will not let go until you are free,” said Gypsy Guillen Kaiser, chief global affairs officer for Committee to Protect Journalists, speaking outside the Rustavi Women’s Prison. On July 13, representatives from the International Press

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🗣️“I am also here on behalf of IPI’s global network of more than a thousand journalists and editors from a hundred countries around the world who also stand in support of Mzia,” said Amy Brouillette, IPI’s advocacy director, outside the prison where Mzia Amaglobeli is held. On

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🗣️“Mzia is not just a journalist — she is a symbol: of resistance, of dignity, and of the fight for press freedom in Georgia and beyond. She is not alone — we are with her and we won’t stop until she’s free. #FreeMzia,” said Jeanne Cavalier, head of RSF’s Eastern Europe &

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📢#Georgia: CPJ's Gypsy Guillén Kaiser and Gulnoza Said joined reps of IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media and RSF and ambassadors from multiple European countries to monitor the trial of jailed journalist Mzia Amaglobeli. CPJ calls on Georgian authorities to release Amaglobeli immediately #FreeMzia

📢#Georgia: CPJ's <a href="/GypsyStrategy/">Gypsy Guillén Kaiser</a> and <a href="/gulnozas/">Gulnoza Said</a> joined reps of <a href="/globalfreemedia/">IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media</a> and <a href="/RSF_inter/">RSF</a> and ambassadors from multiple European countries to monitor the trial of jailed journalist Mzia Amaglobeli.

CPJ calls on Georgian authorities to release Amaglobeli immediately
#FreeMzia
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In Batumi today attending the court hearing of Mzia together with colleagues & international media organisations expressing solidarity with Mzia Amaghlobeli & ბათუმელები • Batumelebi.ge. We stand together in support of free independent media and freedom of expression in 🇬🇪. 🇸🇪🇩🇰🇪🇪🇩🇪🇳🇱🇳🇴🇵🇱🇪🇺

In Batumi today attending the court hearing of Mzia together with colleagues &amp; international media organisations expressing solidarity with Mzia Amaghlobeli &amp; <a href="/Batumelebi_ge/">ბათუმელები • Batumelebi.ge</a>.
We stand together in support of free independent media and freedom of expression in 🇬🇪.
🇸🇪🇩🇰🇪🇪🇩🇪🇳🇱🇳🇴🇵🇱🇪🇺
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Monitored Mzia Amaglobeli’s court hearing in Batumi today together with colleagues and international media organisations, expressing solidarity with Mzia and ბათუმელები • Batumelebi.ge We stand together for free independent media and freedom of expression in Georgia🇬🇪. 🇳🇴🇩🇰🇪🇪🇩🇪🇳🇱🇵🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺

Monitored Mzia Amaglobeli’s court hearing in Batumi today together with colleagues and international media organisations, expressing solidarity with Mzia and <a href="/Batumelebi_ge/">ბათუმელები • Batumelebi.ge</a> 
We stand together for free independent media and freedom of expression in Georgia🇬🇪. 
🇳🇴🇩🇰🇪🇪🇩🇪🇳🇱🇵🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺
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🇳🇱Embassy attended the court hearing of detained #journalist Mzia Amaglobeli | მზია ამაღლობელი in #Batumi together with other Embassies and international media organizations. We stand in support of independent media & freedom of expression in 🇬🇪. 🇪🇺🇸🇪🇳🇴🇪🇪🇩🇰🇩🇪🇳🇱🇵🇱Media Freedom Coalition #freepress

🇳🇱Embassy attended the court hearing of detained #journalist <a href="/MAmaghlobeli/">Mzia Amaglobeli | მზია ამაღლობელი</a> in #Batumi together with other Embassies and international media organizations. We stand in support of independent media &amp; freedom of expression in 🇬🇪. 
🇪🇺🇸🇪🇳🇴🇪🇪🇩🇰🇩🇪🇳🇱🇵🇱<a href="/MediaFreedomC/">Media Freedom Coalition</a> #freepress