Project 64 - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Project 64, Online media outlet

Incident date: October 4, 2025

Attack type:

  • Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediachecker's Facebook account

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Project 64, as well as two other media outlets lost control of their drones when they were covering a large-scale anti-government protest in Tbilisi held on the election day. As the media outlets reported, allegedly drone control was taken over by law enforcement forces. George Gogua who was operating drone said that when he lost control, the flying app showed that the drone was at the airport. A lot of citizens reported that their Google history showed that they were at the airport when the protest was taking place and when they were attending protest which might have been the result of messed frequencies, they said.

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