Georgia denies entry to Belarusian activist
Evgeni Gatsak again tried to cross the border of Sarfi. The human rights defender was returned to Turkey after a few hours in the neutral zone.
Gatsak is the founder of the Belarusian diaspora in Adjara. The activist has been living in Georgia for almost two years.
The Belarusian diaspora organized a press conference in response to the news.
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Stop the persecution of Tatia Samkharadze and ensure her right to privacy.
Human Rights House Tbilisi expresses its full solidarity with Tatia Samkharadze, who has become a victim of pro-government TV channels in recent days due to her activism.
On March 26, Tatia Samkharadze published a video on her Facebook page as proof that the TV company "PostTV" had lied about her, claiming that she had been kidnapped by Dimitri Chikovani, a member of the United National Movement, and could not leave his apartment, and had bruises.
According to Samkharadze's announc ...
,,By attempting to further close space for human rights defenders and media, the Georgian authorities sent a clear signal about their desire to silence dissent and voices calling attention to human right violations." - noted Natia Tavberidze, coordinator of Human Rights House Tbilisi.
On March 14, Natia Tavberidze and the representative of "Rights of Georgia", Mariam Mkhatvari hosted a parallel event of the OSCE Human Dimension Meeting (OSCE SHDM) in Vienna and talked about the threats to media freedom in Georgia.
