Gela Mtivlishvili

Affiliated media: Mtis Ambebi, Journalist, Founder

Incident date: May 9, 2024

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Safety of Journalists Platform

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Since May 7, more than 30 journalists covering the bill “on transparency of foreign influence” and public protests against it have been targeted with anonymous abusive and threatening phone calls, journalists from 10 different independent news outlets. On 9 May, Nino Zuriashvili, head of Studio Monitor, and Gela Mtivlishvili, editor-in-chief of the news website Mountain News, told CPJ that unknown individuals covered the entrances to their offices with posters and graffiti denouncing them as “foreign agents”.