Nini Kikvidze

Affiliated media: Publika, Journalist

Incident date: February 11, 2026

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Publika

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Unknown individuals obstructed a journalist’s work at the Paragraph Hotel, owned by billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, where an event was being held to mark the anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. A journalist from Publika went to the hotel to cover the event, as an activist had arrived to protest against it amid ongoing violent protests in Iran. The journalist was prevented from filming. Unidentified individuals seized her phone and deleted the footage she had recorded at the scene.