Ema Gogokhia

Affiliated media: TV channel Mtavari Arkhi , Correspondent

Incident date: July 22, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: TV channel Mtavari Arkhi

Location: Georgia, Senaki, Svaneti region

Additional information:

The camera crew of the TV channel Mtavari Arkhi was attacked by the Minister of Culture Thea Tsulukiani, who snatched the microphone from the correspondent Ema Gogokhia. «I won't give it back! You should use this microphone to report on the work done,» Tsulukiani wrote on Facebook, posting her photo with the Mtavari Arkhi microphone. The incident took place at the opening ceremony of the theatre in Senaki after the journalist asked a question about the deputy Shalva Papuashvili, who attacked her colleague Tina Bokuchava in the parliamentary hall. The minister tried to turn it into a joke and then ordered the guards to take the journalist and cameraman Zviad Ablotia out of the hall.