Name unknown

Affiliated media: Pirveli, Journalist

Incident date: November 28, 2018

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Georgia Online

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

On the 28th of November the television channel Pirveli said one of their journalist had been attacked, with no name given. The Ministry of Internal Affairs in Georgia began an investigation into violence against a journalist in a polling station in the Tbilisi region of Gldani during the second round of the presidential elections. The journalist was filming two women and asking them questions about why voters are being transported by bus to vote in regions where they are registered, and who is financing such an operation. The journalist's actions irritated the women; one tried to take her phone, and the other hit her a few times with her arm.