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Georgian civil society organizations consider the imprisonment of Formula TV host and journalist Vakho Sanaia alarming, as it represents yet another step taken against freedom of expression. We believe that this court decision constitutes another attempt to suppress independent media and critical voices - a practice characteristic of authoritarian regimes of the Russian and Belarusian models.

Georgian civil society expresses its gratitude to the United States of America for its longstanding support of Georgia’s independence, security, sovereignty, democracy, and Euro-Atlantic integration.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), and the undersigned organisations condemn the adoption of legislative amendments by the Georgian Parliament, which effectively curtail and criminalise the legitimate human rights work of civil society in Georgia.