Friday, December 5, 2025

Georgia upholds two year prison term for editor who slapped police chief

TBILISI, November 19 – A Georgian appeals court has upheld a two year prison sentence for editor Mzia Amaghlobeli. Amaghlobeli is the founder of two independent outlets, Netgazeti and Batumelebi. On 6 August she was convicted under Article 353, part one, of Georgia’s Criminal Code, which covers resistance, threats or violence against a law enforcement … Read more

Ex-prosecutor reveals systematic sex surveillance and blackmail

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Maia Mtsariashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Tbilisi prosecutor claims that the military inspection at the Defense Ministry used to collect videos depicting intimate situations of gay men during Saakashvili’s presidency, to use for blackmail.

Maia Mtsariashvili, a former prosecutor,

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