Irakli Absandze

Affiliated media: Georgia Public Broadcasting, Liberali, TV anchor, Journalist

Incident date: July 12, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Netgazeti.ge

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Irakli Absandze, the host of the Georgia Public Broadcasting and Liberali journalist, was detained at a rally in front of the Georgian Dream political party office. The police urged him to leave the place of the rally, but Absandze did not obey this call, due to which he was detained. Officers who detained him were not in the uniform. Later he was released. As the journalist said on his social media, they also broke his arm.