Niko Mukhigulashvili

Affiliated media: Channel One, Journalist

Incident date: June 21, 2019

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Georgia Online

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Niko Mukhigulashvili, a journalist for Georgia's Channel One, was detained by police outside Tbilisi's Philharmonic Concert Hall. They demanded he stop filming the detention of protesters. The journalist showed his accrediation, but the police beat him, and later detained him, when they also smashed his camera.