Affiliated media: Mtavari Arkhi, TV channel

Incident date: December 12, 2024

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Civil.ge

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Director General of Mtavari TV, Giorgi Gabunia, said that one of the channel’s founders, Zaza Okuashvili, is exerting pressure on the channel to close. He accused Okuasvhili of trying to patch up a business dispute with Bidzina Ivanishvili, patron of the ruling Georgian Dream party, by putting the opposition-leaning Mtavari TV off the air during the ongoing crisis. Okuashvili has responded to Gabunia’s statement, calling it “slander” and denying that he had taken any decision to close the channel or to take any disruptive steps in relation to its operation.