Gela Mtivlishvili

Affiliated media: Mtis Ambebi, Founder, Journalist

Incident date: October 26, 2024

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: OC Media

Location: Georgia, Akhmeta

Additional information:

Gela Mtivlishvili, the editor of online news site Mtis Ambebi, posted on Facebook that he was attacked in east Georgia while working as an observer. ‘We were attacked by alleged precinct observers when we demanded that they and the Georgian Dream coordinators leave the entrance and the surrounding area’, he recalled. ‘They took away our phone, so we couldn’t film the first incident. Even after returning the phone, they prevented us from filming, beat us, spat on us, and cursed us. Before that, in the 1st district of Akhmeta, we witnessed how the [Georgian] Dream coordinator gave money to one of the voters, saying that he had paid off a debt. We called 112, there was no response’, he posted.