Tamar Merakishvili

Affiliated media: Netgazeti.ge, Journalist

Incident date: August 16, 2017

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: netgazeti.ge

Location: Georgia, Tskhinvali Region

Additional information:

On the 16th of August, the police of "South Ossetia" (a separatist territory) detained Tamar Mearakishvili, a journalist from the news website netgazeti, for a few hours, accusing her of defamation of the ruling party. A criminal case has been opened against her.