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From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli My fellow journalists are putting their lives in danger every day, but we refuse to surrender to a regime that threatens Europe’s own security, says imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli

If you read only one thing today, read this letter written from prison, where she has been languishing for several months, by the awesome Georgian journalist Mzia Amaghobeli.
She dared to speak the truth to the Moscow's puppets.
EU leaders don't have her courage.
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🟥 Lekso Burchuladze told TV Pirveli that he believes the plan was not to storm the Presidential Palace, but that there may have been another plan, possibly involving a peaceful entry – “they would have come over to our side”.

💢Rad more:
batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/articles-in-...

#GeorgiaProtests

🟥On Oct 5, the MIA issued a statement warning that any assembly held today or in the coming days would be considered a continuation of attempted “overthrow of the govt” and that appropriate measures would be taken.
💢Learn the details: batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/articles-in-...

#GeorgiaProtests

⭕️ Georgian jazz legend, 90-year-old Giuli Chokheli, joined the #GeorgiaProtests in #Tbilisi, holding portraits of two prisoners of conscience - veteran journalist and media founder Mzia Amaglobeli, and renowned actor Andro Chichinadze.

#GEOLocalElections2025

#FreeMzia #FreeGeorgia #StandWithGeorgia #JournalismIsNotACrime

🔴 It is day 255 of Mzia's unlawful detention and day 300 of #GeorgiaProtests

#FreeMzia #FreeGeorgia

I’m from the mountains; we’re straightforward people. Some say we lack patience, but I see wisdom in that. As my grandpa says, ‘If you let a flea on your foot, it will climb to your head.’ Time keeps proving him right. That flea is #russia: let into #Georgia in 2008, and now you find it in #Estonia

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🆘 Media founder and prominent Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been unlawfully imprisoned for 250 days.

❌ She is the first journalist in #Georgia to be recognized as a prisoner of conscience since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

#FreeMzia #JournalismIsNotACrime #RepressionInGeorgia

join us in Bonn at #bfuture25 and don't forget to tell the world that #JournalismIsNotACrime - #FreeMzia ✊

📢 Honoring courageous investigative journalism under extreme conditions, the @frittord.bsky.social & ZEIT Stiftung announce #FreeMediaAwards2025 winners: jailed Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli and journalists/media from #Ukraine, #Hungary, #Russia, #Belarus & #Azerbaijan.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Ketevan Khutsishvili made our day after all. Moments earlier, she had been assaulted by a police officer; yet she fearlessly confronted this titushka and demanded he return her colleague’s 📱. And she got it back! ‘Return the phone! Quickly! It belongs to a journalist!’ she demanded! @netgazeti.org

A GD supporter attacked Keto Mikadze, a journalist from Publika, while she was working on the ground and confiscated her mobile phone. The phone still hasn’t been found.

🟥“It’s a shame how you’re treating a media representative. Just take your hand off me, I’m leaving,” — said a Netgazeti reporter as a police officer swore at her, dragged her away, and obstructed her work on Melikishvili Ave, outside Kakha Kaladze’s campaign HQ.
#GeorgiaProtests

🔴 Georgian Dream–appointed President Mikheil Kveliashvili pardons Lelo leaders Mamuka Khazaradze & Badri Japaridze, while other opposition figures remain jailed. Lelo, with For Georgia, joins local elections as most opposition boycotts.

#Georgia #RepressionInGeorgia #TerrorInGeorgia

🆘 Judge Nino Galustashvili delivers a verdict in a politically motivated case against 11 pro-EU protesters, requalifying the charges and sentencing each to 2 years.

Some of them have testified about inhuman treatment in custody, including threats of rape.
#RepressionInGeorgia

🟥 Judge Tamar Mchedlishvili sentenced all 8 prisoners of conscience to imprisonment.

The charges were reclassified from the original ones.

#RepressionInGeorgia
#TerrorInGeorgia
#GeorgiaProtests
#Georgia

Truly the best of us are in captivity, held by the largest group of foreign agents in this country’s history since the Bolsheviks. Death to the rotten Russian empire!
#Georgia
#GeorgiaProtests

Georgia's imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, co-founder of Batumelebi & Netgazeti, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. She is joined by Ukrainian journalist Maksym Butkevych and Azerbaijani journalist Ulvi Hasanli. The winner will be announced on 29 Sept.
#FreeMzia

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22 Georgian online media outlets have united in this fight, and you can all support them:

From Abroad: www.gofundme.com/.../help-med....

Campaign: sinatle.media

#thelightsmuststayon
#freemzia
#Georgia
#JournalismIsNotACrime

🚨 These two photos were taken 205 days apart. The first, on the left, is from January 14, when Mzia Amaglobeli was unjustly placed in pre-trial detention. The second, on the right, was taken on August 6, when she was unjustly sentenced to two years in prison.

#FreeMzia
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🔦“The Light Must Stay On” — on day 267 of #GeorgiaProtests, people marched in support of independent online media.

The campaign unites 22 outlets against repressive laws threatening them with financial ruin, raising donations to cover basic needs and remain operational.

🔴 www.sinatle.media

#Georgia #Russia
#SouthCaucasus
#August2008War

Veteran of 2008 Russo-Georgian War, Prisoner of Conscience Jailed for Two Years in War Anniversary Week - Batumelebi August 2008 War • Repression In Georgia •

🔴 As trials of prisoners of conscience from the pro-European #GeorgiaProtests continue, eight have been convicted by August 12 — all having pleaded not guilty.

Two pleaded guilty and sought plea deals but were sentenced without leniency. Only one was acquitted and released in court.

#Georgia

It’s hard to comprehend that I’m witnessing this day, even though we’ve known for quite some time about Russia’s influence on Georgian Dream.

#RussiaGeorgiaWar #August200War
#Georgia

Judge Sentences Journalist Mzia Amaglobeli to 2 Years in Prison Despite International Outcry - Batumelebi Mzia Amaglobeli •

🟥 Judge Nino Sakhelashvili has sentenced journalist Mzia Amaglobeli to 2yrs in prison, ignoring widespread calls from local and international human rights and press freedom organizations to release her and end what they describe as politically motivated prosecution tied to her journalism.
#FreeMzia

Appalling - but unsurprising - news from Georgia today.

#MziaAmaglobeli sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment.

Mzia is a tenacious journalist & a visionary publisher. I am proud to act as international counsel. I & my Georgian & international colleagues will now be taking urgent steps to #FreeMzia.

🔴 This is video was made for #FreeMzia and the fight of Eter!

Author: Nina Masalkina

🔴 I strongly recommend reading and sharing it - the speech was brilliant.

#FreeMzia
#RepressionInGeorgia
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#Georgia

🔴 An hour before the start of the final hearing in Mzia Amaglobeli’s case - where she is expected to deliver her closing statement and the court is to announce its verdict — the road near the courthouse is blocked by police.

www.freemzia.com
#FreeMzia
#RepressionInGeorgia

On Aug 1, Mzia Amaglobeli’s defense gave a 9+ hour closing statement in Batumi Court — ordered to finish in one day.

International counsel of Mzia, @caoilfhionn.bsky.social said: “The world gotta to be watching what is happening here, in Batumi.”

#FreeMzia
#JournalismIsNotACrime