Aleksandra Shvedchenko
Affiliated media: Dozhd TV (TV Rain) , Journalist
Incident date: March 14, 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 14 March 2023, border guards at the Tbilisi airport held Aleksandra Shvedchenko, a Russian reporter with the exiled Russian broadcaster Dozhd TV, for about 30 minutes before denying her entry to the country. Shvedchenko was given a document stating that she was denied entry under “other cases envisaged by Georgian legislation”, and put back on a plane to Riga, Latvia, according to the Dozhd TV editor-in-chief, Thikon Dzyadko. The journalist had been living in Tbilisi for a year.