Georgia increasingly blocks entry to Western journalists amid authoritarian turn - Committee to Protect Journalists

Georgia increasingly blocks entry to Western journalists amid authoritarian turn - Committee to Protect Journalists

When British investigative journalist Will Neal was turned back at Georgia’s border with Armenia in May, he became the fifth of at least six European journalists in recent months to be denied entry into a country once seen as a regional leader for press freedom. Neal, who had lived in Georgia since 2022, was expelled just weeks after publishing an investigation into ties between Georgian ruling circles and a Kremlin-linked Russian oligarch. Alon…