“Sentencing journalist Vakho Sanaia to 14 days in detention over a post on Facebook shows how rapidly Georgia is descending into Kremlin-style repression,” MEP Rasa Juknevičienė wrote on the social media platform X.
“At this rate, Bidzina Ivanishvili will soon outpace even his masters in Moscow. The European Union must respond to this. Solidarity with Vakho Sanaia!” Rasa Juknevičienė wrote.
It should be recalled that the Tbilisi City Court sentenced journalist Vakho Sanaia to 14 days of administrative detention over a social media post concerning Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and MP Vladimir Bozhadze.