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Irakli Kobakhidze's statements with an interval of 5 days.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
1/ One of the leaders of Coalition for Change, Nika Melia, has been sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison for splashing water on a judge. The sentence begins counting from June 20. The verdict was delivered by Judge Elene Goguadze. Melia was absent.
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is how today's protest march started – some of the protesters symbolically shackled themselves with handcuffs.

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 363
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
1/ Ia Melitauri, who was arrested while sitting on a bench, was sentenced to four days in jail. According to her friends, the arrest happened because she wrote on Facebook that police official Lasha Salukvadze abuses women.
Protester Ia Melitauri was sitting on a bench on Rustaveli Avenue when police arrested her in this manner.

#GeorgiaProtests day 361
#TerrorinGeorgia

Video: Mo Se
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
1/ The international press-freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders has published a report reviewing Georgia’s media environment.
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
1/ Georgian Dream Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili is attacking Georgian online media outlets, accusing them of criminal offenses and threatening them.

#TerrorinGeorgia
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
According to current reports, GD police arrested five people at today’s protest. The protesters are holding peaceful marches and are not engaging in any unlawful actions. Yet they are arrested simply for participating.

#GeorgiaProtests Day 362
#TerrorinGeorgia
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
1/ The government propaganda channel TV Imedi aired a story describing Georgian online media, already prosecuted and harassed by Georgian Dream under several laws, as “an underground network that illegally receives millions.”

#TerrorinGeorgia
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
1/ The honorary chairman of Georgian Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili, has won a lawsuit against the Swiss bank Credit Suisse at the Privy Council, which is the highest appellate body for the United Kingdom’s overseas territories.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
1/ TV Pirveli journalist Giorgi Mamniashvili was arrested on Nov 22 while covering a protest, accused of “disobeying a police officer.”

#TerrorinGeorgia
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Protester Ia Melitauri was sitting on a bench on Rustaveli Avenue when police arrested her in this manner.

#GeorgiaProtests day 361
#TerrorinGeorgia

Video: Mo Se
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Here is another video showing police arresting a peaceful protester in Tbilisi on November 22.

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#TerrorinGeorgia
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Arrests for simply participation in protests continue in Tbilisi.

#GeorgiaProtests
#TerrorinGeorgia
Day 360
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Protester Vano Skhirtladze was arrested on Nov 20. At today’s trial, police confirmed that the reason for his arrest was “a squeaky toy.” “He was walking toward the police and making noise in their faces, which is really offensive,” the police officer said.

#GeorgiaProtests
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
During today’s protest, police prevented demonstrators from using the crosswalk and arrested one person. Over the past few days, police have arrested more than ten demonstrators for similar reasons.

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 359
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
📢 1/ Zurab Japaridze leader of Girchi – More Freedom, has refused parole, despite being legally eligible after 6 months in prison with 1 month left.

According to a post on his Facebook page, he won’t “cooperate with the Russian regime in any way.”
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Police arrested more than 10 participants in the peaceful march in Tbilisi today.

#TerrorinGeorgia
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
1/ Journalists, attorneys and attendees will be banned from bringing phones and any other electronic devices into courtrooms.
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
1/ Exactly one year ago, on Nov 19, 2024, 19-year-old Mate Davidze was violently arrested at a protest and charged with assaulting a police officer. Months later, he was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison. Today, on the 357th day of continuous protest, a march was held in his honor.

📷 Guram Muradov
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The court has sentenced Irakli Okruashvili to 7 years over the Buta Robakidze case, while former Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili was acquitted. Okruashvili is already in prison - he was sentenced for 8 months for refusing to attend GD’s investigative commission on UNM crimes.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The GD MFA responds to the EU’s decision to cancel the human rights dialogue. Per Realpolitika.ge, the EU objected to GD’s attempt to include a sanctioned individual in the delegation. GD says this shows Brussels is not ready to hear the Georgian side.
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"We call on the U.S. Congress: Republicans and Democrats, and on President Donald Trump to support the people of Georgia in their fight for freedom" - Tbilisi protest participant Nino Zhvania read from the statement, addressing the US on behalf of the Georgian people.

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 356
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
⭕ The Kutaisi Court of Appeals upheld Mzia Amaglobeli's sentence of 2 years in prison.

#TerrorinGeorgia
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Footage from yesterday's protest march in Tbilisi.

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November 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM