Affiliated media: TV Pirveli, TV Company

Incident date: October 11, 2024

Attack type:

• Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediachecker

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Tbilisi City Court fined TV Pirveli and two other opposition channels according to a violation protocol created by the National Communications Commission for refusing to place an election advertisement for the ruling Georgian Dream party. The commercial includes photos of war-torn Ukraine next to places in Georgia with the message "no to war". TV Channels made a common statement that they were refusing to place this ad because they said it was "immoral" and part of Russian propaganda. The size of fine was 5000 GEL (1850 USD). All three channels were fined for the third time for refusing to publish Georgian Dream election ads.