Arsen Kharatyan

Affiliated media: Aliq Media, Journalist, Founder

Incident date: September 17, 2024

Attack type:

• Ban on entering the country, denial or revocation of a visa / accreditation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Civil.ge

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Arsen Kharatyan, an Armenian journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of an independent non-profit bilingual Georgian-Armenia media platform Aliq Media based in Tbilisi, and the former advisor to the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, was denied entry to Georgia on September 17, he was held up for 4 hours and forced to go back to Europe with no explanation. Kharatyan shared the story of his detention on his social media. He noted that he was denied entry even though he had a ticket for a connecting flight from Tbilisi to Yerevan the next day, September 18. He was told that under Georgian law he couldn’t be sent to his destination and had to be sent back from where he was flying to.