Tamar Mearakishvili

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: December 22, 2025

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OC Media

Location: Georgia, Tskhinvali

Additional information:

Police arrested Tamar Mearakishvili, an ethnic Georgian journalist and activist based in occupied South Ossetia, on 22 December on charges of “espionage”. A court later ordered her to be held in pre-trial detention for two months. Mearakishvili has been a vocal critic of the de facto authorities for many years. Criminal proceedings against her began in 2017 in connection with her journalistic work and social media activity. Since then, she has been deprived of her identity documents and has been unable to travel outside South Ossetia. A few days before her arrest, Mearakishvili wrote about the “complete disregard of civil service and labour law” and violations of her rights.