Andrei Mialeshka

On 15 Sep­tem­ber, Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist Andrei Mialesh­ka was denied entry to Geor­gia, where he has lived for the past three years after fac­ing polit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion in Belarus. On 17 Sep­tem­ber, Armen­ian jour­nal­ist Arsen Kharatyan, edi­tor-in-chief of an inde­pen­dent non-prof­it bilin­gual Geor­gian-Arme­nia media plat­form Aliq Media based in Tbil­isi, was also denied entry to Geor­gia. The Inter­na­tion­al […]

Jour­nal­ist Andrei Mialesh­ka arrived in War­saw at 3:30 a.m. on Sep­tem­ber 17. He had spent almost a day at the air­port in Kutaisi, where he and his 11-year-old daugh­ter were held in a spe­cial room for depor­tees.