Special Investigation Service launches investigation into assault on IDFI Executive Director, camera crew
According to the media reports, Kldiashvili and the Formula TV camera crew were verbally and physically assaulted during an interview by an unknown person near the Swedish Embassy in Tbilisi. Photo via Special Investigation Service
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The Special Investigation Service on Tuesday said it had launched an investigation into an assault on Giorgi Kldiashvili, the Executive Director of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information and the Formula TV camera crew earlier today.
According to the media reports, Kldiashvili and the Formula TV camera crew were verbally and physically assaulted during an interview by an unknown person near the Swedish Embassy in Tbilisi.
Recently, the Public Defender of Georgia, Levan Ioseliani said the attacks on people for having “different or critical opinions” were “inadmissible and unacceptable”, and called on the Service to conduct “a timely and effective” investigation into the case and take “strict legal measures” against the liable persons.
The attacks on people for having “different or critical opinions” are “inadmissible and unacceptable”, Georgian Public Defender Levan Ioseliani said on Tuesday regarding recent assaults on several persons.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Monday launched an investigation into an assault on Vladimer Apkhazava, a civic education teacher and winner of the 2017 National Teacher Prize, in the western Georgian city of Lanchkhuti on Sunday.
The Special Investigation Service of Georgia has charged two individuals with physical and verbal assault on reporters of the Mtavari Arkhi TV channel following an incident in August.
Georgia’s Special Investigation Service has launched an investigation following an alleged physical assault of two cameramen and a reporter of the opposition-minded Formula TV channel, the agency announced on Thursday.