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Media

A sourced record of legislation, elections, institutions, civic space, media and international assessments.

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This is a curated register, not an exhaustive count. Each event has one primary category and is counted once within this monitor. Repeated reports and translations do not create extra events. Shared developments may appear in related monitors and must not be added together as unique events. Counts measure recorded developments, not policy success or democratic quality. Gaps do not establish inactivity.

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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

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:

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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

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

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

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:

Link to record

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

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

Mass attacks on journalists in Tbilisi

MediaOfficial recordKey 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:

Link to record

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

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

Journalists harmed during the June protest dispersal

MediaOfficial recordKey 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.

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Link to record

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:

Link to record

2015

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:

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