Irma Dimitrdze

📌 Mzia Amaghlobeli has dedicated her life to the freedom of #Georgia and to the cause of freedom in general. Today, when we call for freedom for Mzia, we are also calling for #freedom for Georgia, for all political prisoners, and for everyone standing up against dictatorship! @netgazeti.org ✊

💢I was born in an independent #Georgia and have never lived under the Soviet Union, yet I can’t shake the feeling that we are now living under the same kind of oppressive regime - one that represses the freedom-loving, talented, and brilliant patriots of this country... just read this letter:🧵👇🏻

With @mariaressa.bsky.social - grateful for her fight for press freedom and her solidarity with Mzia and Georgian media under attack ✊🫶🏻 #ijf2025

Independent and critical media in #Georgia have one of the last remaining means of survival and it is crowdfunding and small donations. Now even this has become a problem. This clearly illustrates the absurdity of the repressive laws and their real purpose. #RepressionsInGeorgia

Hard to believe this is a real report from court and not a book or film scenario…yet, that’s the reality we are forced to live in #Georgia

💭 At this point, reading and explaining these amendments doesn’t make any sense. Under them, if I want to attend a conference on press freedom policy and my ticket is gifted, I would need prior permission from the state. I wasn’t born in the Soviet Union, and I have no desire to live by its rules

“The real choice presented to civil society leaders and employees is not between seeking approval and defying it. Given the structure of the scheme, approval is not a genuine option. The true choice is between prison and exile”. #TerrorInGeorgia #RepressionInGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests #Georgia

Wrote this op-ed for @eesc.bsky.social the night of Jan 11–12. Then came #WEF26, where one of my messages was articulated better.. yet here it goes: “Now the question is no longer whether the world will change, but whether it will be shaped by those who defend democracy or by those who destroy it”

👐 The most spontaneous interview I’ve ever conducted, and the respondent made it absolutely compelling. If you follow #Georgia, I highly recommend watching it👇🏻 youtu.be/rU0Dldot-5s?... #GeorgiaProtests #Georgia

🔴"Critical steps, including sanctioning Georgia’s leaders for undermining democratic processes and institutions, are needed to defend essential freedoms amid shrinking space for civil society". 🙏Grateful to the George W. Bush Presidential Center for highlighting the struggle of Mzia and #Georgia

Lawyers say pardons take immediate effect once sent to penitentiaries, but prisons are not required to notify families. Since the pardons were announced, nobody has been released from Rustavi Women’s Penitentiary or Gldani Prison. #TerrorInGeorgia

It’s been over nine hours… snowing since morning… no word, nothing. This is pure evil. And they claim to be people of religion and family. They just don’t want to end this sadistic torture of poor elderly mothers and young children... they can’t get enough of it 😡 #TerrorInGeorgia

🟥 “I have no hope and no expectations, but I came anyway, ” - Marina Terishvili, the mother of prisoner of conscience Giorgi Terishvili, arrived at Gldani Prison. This regime is cruel! #TerrorInGeorgia #RepressionInGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests