Irma Dimitrdze

"We reiterate our solidarity with them, calling for justice and their immediate release. Amaglobeli’s reports of humiliating treatment while in detention must be investigated. We stand firmly with all women who defend truth and freedom."

Speaking for You: Nika Gvaramia YouTube video by ბათუმელები / Batumelebi

⏺️ What are the plans of Georgia’s opposition leaders, many of whom face pending cases after only recently leaving prison?

Nika Gvaramia of the Ahali Party Speaking for You.

Note: This interview was recorded on February 21.

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Independent and critical media in #Georgia have one of the last remaining means of survival and it is crowdfunding and small donations. Now even this has become a problem. This clearly illustrates the absurdity of the repressive laws and their real purpose.
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🟥 Georgian Dream’s Deputy Foreign Minister attended a celebration of the Islamic Revolution anniversary at the Paragraph Hotel, built by the family of GD founder, oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili.

#Tbilisi’s iconic TV tower lit in the colors of Iran’s flag.

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Hard to believe this is a real report from court and not a book or film scenario…yet, that’s the reality we are forced to live in #Georgia

‘Reform’ to Seize Total Control: Georgian Dream Targets Education System - Batumelebi Repression In Georgia • განათლება •

🟥 Introduced amid mass protests and a freeze on EU integration, Georgian Dream’s education reform is reshaping Georgia’s universities and schools in ways that experts say threaten academic autonomy, international cooperation, and students’ freedom of choice.

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Marika Mikiashvili Gives Us an Update on the Struggle for Democracy in Georgia 🔴Live Stream YouTube video by ATP Geopolitics

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"A recent study identified and analysed 250 cases of attacks and threats against professional media workers and editorial offices across Georgia in 2025."

The report on attacks on journalists in Georgia that I helped to prepare for JFJ is now out: jfj.fund/attacks-on-m...

💭 At this point, reading and explaining these amendments doesn’t make any sense. Under them, if I want to attend a conference on press freedom policy and my ticket is gifted, I would need prior permission from the state.

I wasn’t born in the Soviet Union, and I have no desire to live by its rules

Opinion | Georgia’s regime has given critics a choice: prison or exile A new draconian legislative package that vaguely defines a ‘foreign grant’ is placing anyone tangentially related to politics at risk of imprisonment.

“The real choice presented to civil society leaders and employees is not between seeking approval and defying it. Given the structure of the scheme, approval is not a genuine option. The true choice is between prison and exile”.

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and Rizhvadze's attempted suicide...

2026 AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY: LESSONS FROM GEORGIA By Irma Dimitradze2026 did not arrive quietly. In Georgia, it arrived with a growing number of political prisoners, a frozen European future, and a country sliding toward authoritarian rule.

Wrote this op-ed for @eesc.bsky.social the night of Jan 11–12. Then came #WEF26, where one of my messages was articulated better.. yet here it goes:

“Now the question is no longer whether the world will change, but whether it will be shaped by those who defend democracy or by those who destroy it”

Speaking for You: Zurab Girchi Japaridze on Prison, Georgia and the West YouTube video by ბათუმელები / Batumelebi

👐 The most spontaneous interview I’ve ever conducted, and the respondent made it absolutely compelling. If you follow #Georgia, I highly recommend watching it👇🏻

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From prison, journalist Mzia Amaglobeli defends fellow Georgians’ dreams | George W. Bush Presidential Center

🔴"Critical steps, including sanctioning Georgia’s leaders for undermining democratic processes and institutions, are needed to defend essential freedoms amid shrinking space for civil society".

🙏Grateful to the George W. Bush Presidential Center for highlighting the struggle of Mzia and #Georgia

“She Has No Expectations” – Mzia Amaglobeli’s Brother Comments After Meeting Her in Prison - Batumelebi Mzia Amaglobeli • Press Freedom • Repression In Georgia •

🟥 “Mzia thanks everyone. She has no expectations and has no information whatsoever regarding a possible pardon… She said, “I’ll see you all in a year,” Malkhaz Amaglobeli, brother of Georgia’s unlawfully imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, told journalists.
#FreeMzia
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Lawyers say pardons take immediate effect once sent to penitentiaries, but prisons are not required to notify families.
Since the pardons were announced, nobody has been released from Rustavi Women’s Penitentiary or Gldani Prison.

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It’s been over nine hours… snowing since morning… no word, nothing. This is pure evil. And they claim to be people of religion and family. They just don’t want to end this sadistic torture of poor elderly mothers and young children... they can’t get enough of it 😡
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🟥 “I have no hope and no expectations, but I came anyway, ” - Marina Terishvili, the mother of prisoner of conscience Giorgi Terishvili, arrived at Gldani Prison.

This regime is cruel!

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🟥 The trial and conviction of Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli violated her right to a fair trial and constituted an abuse of process, the Clooney Foundation for Justice asserted in a new TrialWatch Fairness Report released today.
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🟥 Hopeful to find some justice at @echr.coe.int.

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🟥 Eka Sepashvili (“People’s Power,” Georgian Dream satellite) says she condemns “violence from any side” in Iran and claims she lacks “extensive information” on who is carrying it out, even when asked about killings by authorities.

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⭕️ A young man fell ill during a protest near the Iranian Embassy in #Tbilisi.
According to a family member, he learned while on his way to the rally that one of his relatives had been killed during protests in #Iran.

Photo: @publikage.bsky.social / Mindia Gabadze

In several hours, regime in #Iran plans to execute a young man, #ErfanSoltani, in public. I can’t stop thinking about it. It keeps me awake at night.

Thousands of people have been killed in the streets of Iran simply for demanding freedom.

World needs to find a way to stop this.

Voxeurop Live | Have we lost Georgia already? YouTube video by Voxeurop

Huge thanks to the brilliant @hansgutbrod.bsky.social for an insightful and thought-provoking discussion, and to @gpaccardo.bsky.social & @voxeurop.bsky.social for always keeping #Georgia on the agenda.

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🚨One year since journalist Mzia Amaglobeli was jailed.
Today people marched in #Tbilisi demanding her freedom.

2025 Sakharov Prize laureate, Georgia’s first female journalist prisoner of conscience is sentenced to 2 years on trumped up charges. There are over 100 prisoners of conscience in #Georgia

One Year After Arrest, Diplomatic Missions Reiterate Call to Free Mzia Amaghlobeli - Civil Georgia On the one-year anniversary of the arrest of journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli, 24 diplomatic missions in

On the one-year anniversary of the arrest of journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli, 24 diplomatic missions in Georgia reiterated in a joint statement their call for her “immediate release.”

Today we gathered in front of the women’s prison in Rustavi, where Mzia has been held hostage for a year. It still feels surreal that all of this is really happening, and yet here we are, doing everything we can, and we will keep fighting until the end.

I just miss her so, so much.

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🚨As Jan 11–12 marks one year since the unlawful imprisonment of Georgian journalist and Sakharov Prize 2025 laureate Mzia Amaglobeli, her friends and colleagues have gathered outside the prison in solidarity, demanding her immediate and unconditional release.

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🟥 Three former Georgian defense ministers are in jail: Irakli Okruashvili (2004–2006), Bacho Akhalaia (2009–2012), and Juansher Burchuladze (2021–2024)

⭕️ Irakli Garibashvili (2019–2021) is charged but out on bail; Davit Kezerashvili (2006–2008) was sentenced in absentia and remains wanted.
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On Dec 26, 61yo Zura Menteshashvili marks the 56th day of his hunger strike in prison, facing up to one year for allegedly blocking a road.
Meanwhile, 59yo Zurab Chavchanidze, jailed over the October 4 protests, has entered his 41st day on hunger strike, facing up to six years.
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