Giorgi Gabunia

Affiliated media: Rustavi 2, Television presenter

Incident date: August 20, 2019

Attack type:

• Dismissal / involuntary dismissal / forced quitting of the profession / expulsion from the educational institution

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: civil.ge

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Paata Salia, the new director general of Rustavi 2 TV, announced the dismissal of the head of TV’s News Department Nodar Meladze, news producer Giorgi Laperashvili, hosts of political talk shows Eka Kvesitadze and Giorgi Gabunia as well as Nanuka Zhorzholiani, the host of entertaining program due to “conflict of interests.” He said it is not right that a person who is working on the channel “wants to change the TV owner and spares no efforts to achieve that.”