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10/10/2025 - 11:27
Regulator Warns Broadcasters, Including Formula, Over ‘Funding from Foreign Power’
The Communications Commission, Georgia’s state media regulator, has issued written warnings to several broadcasters, including the government-critical Formula TV, for allegedly receiving foreign funding, marking the first known invocation of new broadcasting laws that restrict television and radio channels from receiving money from foreign sources. In the October 9 decision, the regulator found TV Formula, along with its affiliate Formula Multimedia and three radio stations – Journalists’ Union–People’s Voice, Radio-TV Nori, and Sistema Gama, in…
09/10/2025 - 23:14
Number of Detainees Over October 4 Unrest Up to 44
The number of those arrested in connection with the October 4 election-day unrest has reached 44, after the Interior Ministry announced the detention of 9 more persons in separate statements on October 9. Four more suspects remain at large, and police are working to identify additional individuals, the Ministry noted. According to the Ministry, the suspects “carried out illegal and violent acts on [Tbilisi’s] Atoneli street,” with part of them “verbally and physically assaulting law…
09/10/2025 - 19:19
Ex-Prison Agency Official Arrested on Allegations of Staging Bachiashvili Beating
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSSG) said on October 9 that it arrested Giorgi Kemoklidze, the former deputy director of the Penitentiary Department of the Special Penitentiary Service, on allegations of staging the beating of Giorgi Bachiashvili, a jailed ex-associate of Bidzina Ivanishvili, in his prison cell. The announcement came a day after Davit Gogoberishvili, former chief of Tbilisi’s Gldani No. 8 penitentiary facility, where Bachiashvili was reportedly beaten in July, was found dead, in what…
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