Irma Dimitrdze
@irmadimitradze.bsky.social
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Pursuant to Section 61, Paragraph two of the Immigration Law, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, @baibabraze.bsky.social, took a decision to include two citizens of Georgia in the list of personae non gratae in Latvia, and to subject them to a ban on entering Latvia for an indefinite period of time.
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🛑 Irina Imerlishvili stepped down from her position with 11 months left in her term.

🛑 The GD plans to file a Constitutional Complaint seeking to ban around 10 opposition parties.
It is unclear whether Imerlishvili’s resignation is connected to this case.
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One citizen also reported that his cousin was arrested at home around midnight during a special forces raid. “They pointed a gun at a four-year-old’s head,” he said, describing the terrorizing nature of the operation.

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🆘 Another wave of arrests took place across #Georgia last night. The exact number of detainees, their names and charges, remains unknown. So far, info has emerged about several activists, incl Mariam Mekantsishvili - the one who spoke with the OSCE Chair @elinavaltonen.bsky.social on Rustaveli Ave
I just wanted to share this here as it was my appeal to the @europarl.europa.eu earlier this week when we spoke about Mzia and Georgia’s resistance movement.

#FreeMzia #GeorgiaProtests
Irma Dimitradze to the EP about Mzia Amaglobeli
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🟥The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Finland’s Foreign Minister, @elinavaltonen.bsky.social has been fined GEL 5,000 for “blocking a road” under #Georgia’s repressive laws imposed by the ruling Georgian Dream party.

#GeorgiaProtests
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🔴When your country and freedom are at stake, you don’t calculate chances - you fight.
That’s what we are doing.
We need support in this fight, not measurement of our chances.
✊My first visit to EP came with a wish - that the promise I made there is fulfilled sooner than anyone can imagine: #FreeMzia
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Despite being forst woman journalist political prisoner in #Georgia, #MziaAmaglobeli 's voice is louder than ever fighting against spirit of non-freedom in #Georgia and in whole world.

@irmadimitradze.bsky.social was delivering Mzia's message to journalims community in #Brussels on #MFRR2025 today
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🟥 Lekso Burchuladze told TV Pirveli that he believes the plan was not to storm the Presidential Palace, but that there may have been another plan, possibly involving a peaceful entry – “they would have come over to our side”.

💢Rad more:
batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/articles-in-...

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🟥On Oct 5, the MIA issued a statement warning that any assembly held today or in the coming days would be considered a continuation of attempted “overthrow of the govt” and that appropriate measures would be taken.
💢Learn the details: batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/articles-in-...

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⭕️ Georgian jazz legend, 90-year-old Giuli Chokheli, joined the #GeorgiaProtests in #Tbilisi, holding portraits of two prisoners of conscience - veteran journalist and media founder Mzia Amaglobeli, and renowned actor Andro Chichinadze.

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🗣️“Offering your support to #Georgia is not only an act of solidarity – it is the pragmatic choice. Another repressive regime in the neighbourhood would endanger Europe’s own security. To abandon Georgia now would be to reward Russia’s aggression,” - unlawfully jailed journalist Mzia Amaglobeli to EU
From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli
My fellow journalists are putting their lives in danger every day, but we refuse to surrender to a regime that threatens Europe’s own security, says imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli
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🔴 It is day 255 of Mzia's unlawful detention and day 300 of #GeorgiaProtests

#FreeMzia #FreeGeorgia
🟥On the 255th day of her unlawful detention, Mzia Amaglobeli was nominated for #SakharovPrize

🟥Nomination “Mzia Amaglobeli and Georgia’s Pro-Democracy Protest Movement,” was initiated by Rasa Juknevičienė, Tobias Cremer, Petras Austrevicius, Sergey Lagodinsky, and co-signed by 66 MEPs from 5 groups
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🆘 Media founder and prominent Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been unlawfully imprisoned for 250 days.

❌ She is the first journalist in #Georgia to be recognized as a prisoner of conscience since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

#FreeMzia #JournalismIsNotACrime #RepressionInGeorgia
join us in Bonn at #bfuture25 and don't forget to tell the world that #JournalismIsNotACrime - #FreeMzia
If you're in Bonn for #bfuture25 early October, we are going to have a panel about the state of media in Georgia with wonderful @irmadimitradze.bsky.social and Mamuka Adghuladze. It's on October 3 at 14:00.

More about our panel and festival info: www.b-future.org/en/2025/even...
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📢 Honoring courageous investigative journalism under extreme conditions, the @frittord.bsky.social & ZEIT Stiftung announce #FreeMediaAwards2025 winners: jailed Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli and journalists/media from #Ukraine, #Hungary, #Russia, #Belarus & #Azerbaijan.

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Ketevan Khutsishvili made our day after all. Moments earlier, she had been assaulted by a police officer; yet she fearlessly confronted this titushka and demanded he return her colleague’s 📱. And she got it back! ‘Return the phone! Quickly! It belongs to a journalist!’ she demanded! @netgazeti.org
Netgazeti’s live broadcast shows how Publika.ge journalist Aleksandre Keshelashvili had his phone taken away and was obstructed from working. A supporter of Kaladze handed the phone to someone in one of the cars, but a Netgazeti journalist compelled him to return it.
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A GD supporter attacked Keto Mikadze, a journalist from Publika, while she was working on the ground and confiscated her mobile phone. The phone still hasn’t been found.
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🟥“It’s a shame how you’re treating a media representative. Just take your hand off me, I’m leaving,” — said a Netgazeti reporter as a police officer swore at her, dragged her away, and obstructed her work on Melikishvili Ave, outside Kakha Kaladze’s campaign HQ.
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🔴 Georgian Dream–appointed President Mikheil Kveliashvili pardons Lelo leaders Mamuka Khazaradze & Badri Japaridze, while other opposition figures remain jailed. Lelo, with For Georgia, joins local elections as most opposition boycotts.

#Georgia #RepressionInGeorgia #TerrorInGeorgia
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🆘 Judge Nino Galustashvili delivers a verdict in a politically motivated case against 11 pro-EU protesters, requalifying the charges and sentencing each to 2 years.

Some of them have testified about inhuman treatment in custody, including threats of rape.
#RepressionInGeorgia
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🟥 Judge Tamar Mchedlishvili sentenced all 8 prisoners of conscience to imprisonment.

The charges were reclassified from the original ones.

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Truly the best of us are in captivity, held by the largest group of foreign agents in this country’s history since the Bolsheviks. Death to the rotten Russian empire!
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🔴Today verdict is expected to be delivered in the case of 8 prisoners of conscience.

Facing 5-9 years:

Zviad Tsetskhladze
Vasil Kadzelashvili
Vefkhia Kasradze

Facing 4-6 years:

Irakli Miminoshvili
Insaf Aliev
Tornike Goshadze
Nikoloz Javakhishvili
Giorgi Gorgadze

#Georgia #RepressionInGeorgia
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Georgia's imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, co-founder of Batumelebi & Netgazeti, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. She is joined by Ukrainian journalist Maksym Butkevych and Azerbaijani journalist Ulvi Hasanli. The winner will be announced on 29 Sept.
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