David Kashiashvili

Affiliated media: Formula TV channel , Presenter

Incident date: August 3, 2020

Attack type:

Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Journalist David Kashiashvili was called to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in connection with the case of 23-year old Tamar Bachaliashvili, who was found dead on 25 July, several kilometres away from Tbilisi. David aired a journalistic investigation according to which Tamar Bachaliashvili could have been killed because she received compromising materials about high-ranking government officials.

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