6. Words Can Hurt Them
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6. Words Can Hurt Them
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On 6 August 2025, Mzia Amaglobeli, a journalist and the co-founder of the independent news platforms Netgazeti and Batumelebi, was sentenced to two years in prison. The provocation, arrest, and ill-treatment of a respected journalist brought fresh international attention to Georgian Dream’s attempts to silence independent media. The absurd show trial that followed was supposed to intimidate all journalists, but in reality it did more to highlight the absence of justice in Georgia - disproportionate charges, a captured judiciary, a parade of underlings and stooges pushed out of the shadows to deliver under-rehearsed, sham testimony, to the point that you wonder if this is part of the show of force: 'Look what we can do, we don’t even have to try anymore.' While Mzia’s trial may have briefly drawn interest from West of the Black Sea, Georgian Dream’s pincer movement, simultaneously undermining independent media and making life intolerable for individual journalists has been years in the making.
With Anna Gvarishvili, Mariam Nikuradze, Irma Dimitradze and Zaza Abashidze.
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