Right-wing media outlet Alt-Info unable to register political party ‘due to application mistakes’
An anchor of ultra-nationalist Internet platform Alt-Info Zurab Makharadze, who is the head of the Conservative Movement, stated that the movement is ready to have the ‘partnership relations with Russia.’ Photo: video grab.
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The Georgian right-wing media outlet Alt-Info founders have failed to register the political party Conservative Movement, which they established on November 20, by the National Agency of Public Registry due to mistakes made while filling out the application form.
The document issued by the body reads that Giorgi Kardava’s signature, who has been elected as a secretary general of the party, is missing from the application form along with several other errors. They have been given 10 days to fix the mistakes.
An anchor of ultra-nationalist media platform Alt-Info Zurab Makharadze is the head of the Conservative Movement while among the other leaders of the party are members of Alt-Info Koka Morgoshia and Irakli Martinenko.
Makharadze stated that the movement is ready to have ‘partnership relations with Russia.’
Alt-Info has been actively expressing and encouraging violence and aggression against the Tbilisi Pride march while founders of the media outlet were participating in the counter rally on July 5.
Later in July police searched the apartments of Alt-Info’s founder and its members however, no case was filed against them.
A total of 50 Facebook accounts, 49 pages and 15 Instagram accounts have been banned from the social media that were related to Alt-Info, while the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) fined Alt-Info with 2,500 GEL (about $803/€715) for obscenity and the distribution of inappropriate material to minors in April this year.
Facebook deleted two dozen pages, 12 groups and more than 30 accounts from Georgia across its two platforms in March after "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" from their content was found to have links to the Georgian March ultranationalist party.
Georgian telecommunication provider Silknet has agreed to air and include in all its packages right-wing media outlet Alt-Info after months of a dispute caused by the outbreak of violence at the Tbilisi Pride counter rally on July 5. Alt-Info has been actively expressing and encouraging violence and aggresion against Tbilisi Pride march while founders of the media outlet were participating in the counter rally on July 5.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria has asked the country’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office to launch a criminal prosecution against archpriest Spiridon Tskipirishvili and a right-wing activist and an anchor of ultra-nationalist Internet platform Alt-Info Zurab Makharadze for their role on an anti-LGBT demonstration in central Tbilisi in early July.
Over 200 media representatives have called on the General Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia to launch an investigation into the violence against dozens of journalists by right-wing activists at the Tbilisi Pride counter rally on July 5.
After six hours of interrogation Guram Palavandishvili, Zurab Makharadze and archpriest Tskipurishvili have left the Tbilisi Main Police Department. All three individuals interrogated today say they did not commit any violence during the counter rally on July 5. Makharadze said that 'if there is pressure from the US ambassador and ambassadors of the European countries' he could not rule out being arrested.
The political party Conservative Movement of the Georgian right-wing media outlet Alt-Info has been officially registered by the National Agency of Public Registry on December 7.
Facebook has deleted pages and groups associated with the Georgian-based pro-Russian media outlet Alt-Info on the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy has said.