Nodar Meladze

Affiliated media: TV channel Pirveli , Head of the News Services

Incident date: March 15, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: civil.ge

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

The Georgian Interior Ministry announced that it has launched an investigation into an alleged murder plot targeting TV Pirveli journalists, Nodar Meladze and Maka Chikhladze, who recently released the controversial covert recordings involving Bera Ivanishvili. The probe was launched after Levan Mamaladze, Shevardnadze-era governor of the Kvemo Kartli region who fled to Russia after being accused of extortion, told Imedi TV on March 10 citing a Ukrainian source that Georgia’s ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili and ex-Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili were plotting the murder of Nodar Meladze and Maka Chikhladze “to cause unrests in the country.”