Filipp Dzyadko

Affiliated media: Journalist, Writer

Incident date: February 19, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Safety of Journalists Platform

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

On 19 February 2023, border guards at the Tbilisi airport told the Russian writer and journalist Filipp Dzyadko that he could not enter the country because their computer was frozen, saying they “could not comment on anything”, according to news reports and the journalist. He told CPJ that he believed the refusal was linked to his former journalistic work for Dozhd TV, the editor-in-chief of the now-shuttered newspaper Bolchoy Gorod, and an “anti-war” novel he published in April 2022. He said it was also possibly related to his brother Tikhon’s work for Dozhd TV. The journalist stayed in the airport until the following day, when he took a flight to Armenia. He had been living in Georgia since March 2022.