Southern Caucasus correspondent in Batumi
“I will not bend this system. I will not play according to its rules,” journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, who was hitting in the Georgian prison for 25 days.
The founder of two news sites in Georgia, her health is decreasing and relatives fear for her life. It was transferred to the hospital this week for treatment.
Amagloblei, 49, was detention for every trial since a police chief slapped during the night protests that motivated the Georgians since the end of November.
They accuse their government of falsifying the elections and turning their back to the future of their country in the European Union.
The authoritarian government in Georgia says it has committed a serious criminal crime, but its detention before the trial turned it into a symbol of the resistance.
“Today I, tomorrow, can be anyone daring to dream about a fair democratic European Georgia, which was not touched by the Russian influence, which is not burning from persecution,” Al -Osaglobelli wrote in a letter from the Rostavi prison, which was not touched by the Georgian capital.
The European Union Human Rights Commissioner says that her detention before the trial was charged with an unjustified police officer.
Fourteen foreign embassy in Georgia called for the immediate release of Amagloblei and her case, and described her detention as another concern for the intimidation of journalists in Georgia.
Mzia Amaglobeli was arrested twice on January 11 in very controversial conditions, while protesting the Georgian dream government in the Black Sea port in Batumi.
A video clip that was promoted repeatedly on the government media shows that the Patumi police chief was lightly on the cheek.
Prime Minister in Georgia, Irkli Copkhids, condemned her actions.
“Everyone should understand that the police officer is invincible, and the police officer represents the state and the state force,” Copakids told a newspaper newspaper.
If convicted of assault, she faces between four to seven years in prison.
Amagloblei is one of the hundreds of demonstrators who have been arrested throughout Georgia. The opposition leaders are among those who were detained and in some cases wounded by the government's thugs gangs.
Pictures of the journalist, as well as invitations to release the main protest sites in Tbilisi as well as its city in Batumi.
Her family, friends and colleagues describe her as a peaceful and calm person and worked hard to the foundations of the Batomlibi Batumilli website with her commercial partner Eter Torrads in 2001.
They continued to launch NetGazeti on the Internet, national news, and today both sites are unbiased and confident news sources in the depth of the media depth in Georgia.
On the third floor, BatumleBi offices look at the snow -covered with ajara. The Georgian flag is suspended from the balcony, along with the flags of the European Union and Ukraine.
“The Mzia is well known in the press circles, but it was not a general person,” says a civil rights activist, Malikaz Chocitya, who participated in the night protests in Batumi.
“She was only 25 years old, and she is a young courageous journalist when the Batumlebi newspaper, which is fighting for freedom of expression and defending human rights through various government regimes in this country.”
The daughter of her sister Iveta, who grew up with Mzia, describes her as a built -in addict.
The night she was arrested, she was still in her office, and most of her employees had returned home all night.
A colleague and journalist, Irma Deederdars, says her president has not participated in the anti -government daily protests.
But when Amaglobeli learned that a friend was among the many demonstrators who were arrested for putting on posters for a coming general strike, she rushed to the police station.
“People were chanting” stickers' stickers is not a crime, “says Dimitrarades.
Weeks ago, as protests continued, the Georgian dream government banned face masks in protests and increased fines to make “inscriptions or drawings” on buildings.
Amaglobeli was arrested on a video uploading a police station wall before many officers led by.
“We later learned in the police report that she had disobeyed the police's legal order that she was granting and insulting her,” said Erma Demerades, adding that all of this is incorrect.
She was accused of administrative crime and released. She was her niece, Evita, with other relatives waiting for her: “When Mzia came out, she went out until she said:” See, if you wanted to rest, to spend one day, she didn't need to do so. “
But the situation soon escalated, and this was followed by more arrests.
Amoglobeli was seen in the face of the Pattumi police chief Irakli Dgeubadze. And while he was walking away, he grabbed him next to him and slapped him.
The snapshots taken after minutes show that they are led by the police.
Outside the camera, it is ridiculed of a threatened and abusive language that the witnesses said was the voice of the police chief.
Amagloblei lawyers say he spit later on her face and refused to give her water or reach toilets. She was also refused to reach her lawyer for several hours.
Patumi's prosecutors argued that her slap was driven by “revenge.” The guarantee judge was rejected by her legal team and returned it in the reservation before the trial.
In the dock, Amaglobeli seemed to be challenging, wearing a blue Hoody and holding a copy of the book by Nobel Prize -winning Maria Risa, “How to stand in front of a dictator: the battle for our future.”
Twenty days after her hunger strike on January 31, she urged Amaglobeli's special prison service to stop “in the interest of its health.”
The pioneering Georgian dream figure in Parliament Mamoka Meddarzi said it was wrong to photograph it as “a person who made a big tournament … you must start eating and everything would have ended.”
The mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze, another pioneering party in the party, suggested that Amaglobeli could come out and admit “I made a mistake, and I apologize”, because Batumi was a generous police officer.
However, many groups said they are the authorities that are mistaken by their detention in the first place. The Georgian Youth Lawyers Association says that its prosecution is “political motives.”
Since the beginning of the pro -European Union protests, hundreds of demonstrators have been detained, beaten, and inhuman dealing with international transparent Georgia.
More than 90 journalists were violently attacked and damaged their equipment.
No police officers have faced matters.
The independent private investigation service in Georgia, which is investigating the allegations made by officials, says that it has made an investigation into a possible use of power in the Amaghlobeli case by “specific employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Georgia.”
10 police officers, including the Patumi police chief, have been interrogated as witnesses. Nothing was suspended from the service.
The following is the decision in the court on March 4.