Giorgi Liponava

Affiliated media: Formula TV, Founder, Director

Incident date: October 25, 2025

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Formula TV

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

The Tbilisi City Court has sentenced Giorgi Liponava, one of the founders of Formula TV, to three days of administrative detention for allegedly “artificially blocking the road” on Rustaveli Avenue. Several other Formula TV employees and journalists, Keta Tsitskishvili, Vakho Sanaia, and Tsira Zhvania, have also been detained previously on the same charges.