One more detained for attacking TV Pirveli cameramen during Tbilisi Pride counter rally on July 5

Police have detained one more individual for attacking TV Pirveli cameraman Levan Bregvadze while performing his professional duties near Revaz Tabukashvili and Giorgi Chanturia streets at the Tbilisi pride counter rally on July 5.

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The Interior Ministry has announced earlier today that an individual, identified only as N.G. and born in 1997, was detained ‘for unlawful interference with the journalist’s professional activities under the threats of violence’.

The interior ministry has released  a video footage of the detention:

Earlier this week another individual, identified as V.B. and born in 1988, was detained for physical and verbal abuse of the TV Pirveli cameraman.

A total of 55 individuals, including 53 media representatives, were attacked by the right-wing groups during the counter rally of Tbilisi Pride on July 5, while 25 offenders have been detained as of now.

Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge

Journalists, civil activists and politicians have again gathered in front of the parliament building in downtown Tbilisi demanding Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili’s resignation, following the death of TV Pirveli cameraman Lekso Lashkarava.

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Lashkarava, who was one of the 53 media representatives attacked by the right-wing groups during the Tbilisi Pride counter rally, passed away on July 11.