Affiliated media: TV channel Pirveli , Camera crew
Incident date: April 11, 2021
Attack type:
- Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: TV channel Mtavari Arkhi
Location: Georgia, Namаkhvani, Tsqaltubo municipality of the Imereti region
Additional information:
The police forbade all journalists (camera crews of the Imedi, Mtavari Arkhi, Pirveli, Rustavi 2, and Formula TV channels) from approaching the village of Namаkhvani in Tsqaltubo municipality of the Imereti region, where special forces are conducting an operation to suppress a protest against the construction of the hydropower plant. The journalists were stopped at the village of Gumati without explanation. The protest lasts 168 days, and the journalists have never had any mobility problems.