Ray Baseley - Justice for Journalists

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Ray Baseley

Affiliated media: Freelance journalist

Incident date: October 22, 2024

Attack type:

  • Ban on entering the country, denial or revocation of a visa / accreditation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Safety of Journalists Platform

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

On 22 October 2024, Czech journalist Ray Baseley posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he had been denied entry to Georgia without any explanation for the ban. "Today at 19:30 I was refused entry into the country of Georgia without reasoning or any further explanation. This is unacceptable; even the local border force doesn’t know why I wasn’t allowed entry. Anyone who can help please write to me," Baseley wrote in his tweet. In his message to the investigative media outlet Studio Monitori, Baseley said that his phone was about to be confiscated, after which all contact with him was lost. Later, the journalist reported that he is in safety at the airport in Warsaw.