格鲁吉亚法院判处电视主播萨纳亚30天监禁 因其网上批评执政党人士言论 为其第三次受罚
据路透社10月19日报道，格鲁吉亚一家法院周一判处一名知名电视主播30天监禁，原因是他曾在网上发表批评执政党政界人士的言论；这是一连串已引发外界对新闻自由担忧的「仇恨言论」起诉中的最新一例。
据Interpress通讯社报道，这一裁决是反对派频道Formula的记者瓦霍·萨纳亚第二次被拘留、第三次受罚。
执政的「格鲁吉亚梦想」党自2012年起执政，自2024年10月赢得议会选举连任以来，加紧了对反对派人士与团体的打压。此后政府冻结加入欧盟进程的举动，在这个南高加索国家引发了大规模街头示威，示威者称此举显示国家正走向威权。
「格鲁吉亚梦想」党已向宪法法院提起诉讼，要求彻底取缔该国最大的几个反对党，宪法法院将于下周开庭审理。
周一的法院裁决与萨纳亚此前的案件，均源于他批评格鲁吉亚议会议长及另一名执政党政界人士的网上帖子。格鲁吉亚媒体引述的这些言论含有针对相关政界人士的粗俗用语，萨纳亚曾于今年7月为此服过14天监禁。
据Interpress引述，萨纳亚在周一裁决后说：「逮捕我的主要目的是让社会噤声。」「我们将推翻这个政权，无论需要多久。」
今年夏季，政府在内政部内设立了一个机构，负责监控「侵犯／侮辱人格尊严并含有仇恨言论」的公开言论。此后已有数十人因在集会上举标语或在网上撰写批评政界人士及其他公众人物的言论而被捕或被罚款，被批评的对象包括被广泛视为格鲁吉亚实际统治者的亿万富翁、前总理比济纳·伊万尼什维利。
人权观察等权利组织谴责了这些起诉，称其威胁言论自由权。（GSM 据路透社报道）
Georgian Court Jails TV Anchor Vakho Sanaia for 30 Days Over Online Criticism of Ruling-Party Figures, His Third Penalty
A court in Georgia sentenced a well-known TV anchor to 30 days in jail on Monday after he posted comments online critical of ruling party politicians, part of a string of prosecutions of "hate speech" that have triggered concern about press freedom, Reuters reported on October 19.
The ruling, reported by the Interpress news agency, marks the second detention and third penalty for Vakho Sanaia, a journalist with the opposition channel Formula.
In power since 2012, the governing Georgian Dream party has clamped down on opposition figures and groups since winning re-election in an October 2024 parliamentary vote. A subsequent move by the government to freeze its accession process for the European Union triggered massive street demonstrations in the South Caucasus country by Georgians angered by what they cast as the country's authoritarian turn.
The Constitutional Court will hear a lawsuit next week filed by Georgian Dream that seeks to ban the country's largest opposition parties outright.
Monday's court decision and the previous cases against Sanaia stem from online posts he wrote criticising Georgia's parliamentary speaker and another ruling party politician. The comments, cited by Georgian media, contain vulgarities directed at the politicians, for which Sanaia served a 14-day jail sentence in July.
"The main goal of my arrest is to silence society," he was cited as saying by Interpress after the ruling on Monday. "We will overthrow this regime, no matter how long it takes."
This summer the government established a body within the interior ministry to monitor public statements that "violate/insult human dignity and contain hate speech". Dozens of people have been arrested and fined since then for holding placards at rallies or writing comments online that criticise politicians and other public figures, including Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire former prime minister widely viewed as Georgia's de facto ruler.
Human Rights Watch and other rights groups have condemned the prosecutions, saying they threaten the right to freedom of expression. (GSM, via Reuters)
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