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Downloads use the selected language and include dates, status and source links. 2025 December 11, 2025
Grand Chamber rules on journalists injured during protests MediaCourt judgment Journalists
In Tsaava and Others, the ECtHR found expression-rights violations concerning fourteen journalists.
The final judgment concerned the June 2019 dispersal and also found ill-treatment, investigation and assembly violations.
Link to record September 8, 2025
Journalists assaulted on Melikishvili Avenue MediaOfficial record Journalists
The Public Defender reported assaults, phone seizures and obstruction of journalists during clashes near Kakha Kaladze’s campaign headquarters.
He called for accountability and protection of assembly and media work.
Published: September 9, 2025
Link to record August 6, 2025
Amaglobeli receives a two-year sentence MediaOfficial record Journalists
CPJ records that Batumi City Court sentenced journalist Mzia Amaglobeli to two years after reclassifying the charge.
CPJ challenged the case’s proportionality and political context; this register does not independently adjudicate the case.
Link to record June 19, 2025
European Parliament demands Amaglobeli’s release MediaAdopted Journalists
The European Parliament adopted a media-freedom resolution calling for Mzia Amaglobeli’s release and protection of independent journalism.
The resolution’s political and human-rights assessments are attributed to Parliament, rather than treated as judicial findings.
Link to record April 1, 2025
Broadcasting amendments restrict foreign financing MediaAdopted Media regulation
Parliament adopted three broadcasting amendments, including restrictions on foreign funding and expanded regulatory powers.
Sponsors invoked broadcasting quality and protection from foreign influence; commercial exceptions remained in the funding restrictions.
Link to record 2024 October 7, 2024
Public Defender supports access to environmental information MediaOfficial record Information access
The Defender submitted a court brief in the Information Centers Network case on access to environmental information.
He invoked Aarhus Convention standards; the submission was not a court judgment.
Published: October 10, 2024
Link to record May 7, 2024
Formula crew and IDFI director reportedly assaulted MediaOfficial record Journalists
The Public Defender reported an assault on Giorgi Kldiashvili and a Formula television crew during an interview.
He requested investigation of possible links to their professional work or critical views.
Link to record 2023 June 22, 2023
President pardons Nika Gvaramia MediaOfficial record Journalists
President Salome Zourabichvili pardoned the media executive, who was released from prison.
PACE’s media-freedom report records the date. A pardon is distinct from a judicial acquittal.
Published: January 5, 2024
Link to record 2022 December 7, 2022
Public Defender criticizes Gvaramia’s prosecution MediaPublished assessment Journalists
After reviewing appeal materials, the Public Defender considered Nika Gvaramia’s case politically motivated.
This was the ombudsman’s assessment, not an ECtHR finding; she renewed her call for a pardon.
Link to record July 5, 2022
Public Defender reviews accountability for July violence MediaPublished assessment Journalists
The Public Defender reviewed attacks on journalists and others on 5 July 2021.
The assessment noted prosecutions of participants but criticized the absence of organizer prosecutions at that date.
Link to record 2021 July 5, 2021
Mass attacks on journalists in Tbilisi MediaOfficial record Key event Journalists
Journalists covering a Tbilisi gathering were assaulted and obstructed. The OSCE media representative condemned the violence.
She cited an Interior Ministry investigation concerning fifty-three media representatives.
Published: July 6, 2021
Link to record 2020 January 30, 2020
ECtHR finds no violation in court-file access cases MediaCourt judgment Information access
In Studio Monitori and Others, the ECtHR found no Article 10 violation concerning access to criminal files.
The applicants had not adequately explained the requests’ purpose.
Link to record 2019 July 18, 2019
ECtHR finds no fair-trial violation in Rustavi 2 dispute MediaCourt judgment Media regulation
The Court rejected the examined judicial-bias complaints in the television ownership case.
Other complaints were inadmissible, and the interim suspension of enforcement was lifted.
Link to record June 20, 2019
Journalists harmed during the June protest dispersal MediaOfficial record Key event Journalists
The OSCE media representative reported injuries, assaults, detentions or equipment damage affecting over thirty media workers.
Reports included rubber-bullet injuries during police dispersal.
Published: June 21, 2019
Link to record 2017 May 29, 2017
Mukhtarli reportedly abducted from Tbilisi MediaOfficial record Journalists
According to his lawyer, journalist Afgan Mukhtarli was abducted near his Tbilisi home and forcibly transferred to Azerbaijan.
ODIHR called for investigation; responsibility was not established in this statement.
Published: June 8, 2017
Link to record 2015 November 5, 2015
Court orders temporary managers for Rustavi 2 MediaCourt order Media regulation
Tbilisi City Court ordered temporary managers during Rustavi 2’s ownership dispute.
The OSCE media representative warned of threats to editorial independence.
Published: November 6, 2015
Link to record 2012 July 12, 2012
Journalists injured in Karaleti MediaOfficial record Journalists
The OSCE media representative reported injuries to ten journalists covering a public meeting in Karaleti.
She called for investigations into repeated attacks.
Published: July 16, 2012
Link to record