Buba Chivadze

Affiliated media: Kutaisitoday.ge, Editor

Incident date: April 5, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: TV channel Mtavari Arkhi

Location: Georgia, Kutaisi

Additional information:

The editor of the Kutaisitoday.ge website Buba Chivadze was attacked by a security guard of the Kutaisi City Hall when he tried to enter the building to carry out his professional duties. The guards of the Kutaisi City Hall called a police squad, whose members carried the journalist out of the building in their arms and took him to the police station.