Speaker: Batumelebi, Netgazeti fully funded from abroad
Speaker: Batumelebi, Netgazeti fully funded from abroad

Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Monday said media outlets “Batumelebi” and “Netgazeti” “are engaged in biased political activism rather than objective journalism,” citing their “foreign funding sources.”

“These publications are fully funded from abroad, which has become evident. Rather than practicing unbiased journalism, they have devolved into biased political activism,” Papuashvili stated.

Referring to a recent incident, the Speaker added: “We witnessed one of Batumelebi’s editors slapping a police officer in the footage. Another editor then lied by dismissively characterizing it as a minor commotion, claiming the contact was accidental.”