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Precious Little

In Georgia, a journalist who has been on hunger strike in jail for the past 3 weeks has been taken to hospital. Mzia Amaglobeli, the founder of two independent online news publications was arrested last month and charged with assaulting a police officer. There has been a strong international reaction, the EU human rights commissioner and 14 foreign embassies in Georgia have called for her release. Critics say Amaglobeli's detention highlights Georgia's rapid democratic decline. Over the past two months as anti-government protests have continued in the country, civil society organisations say over 90 journalists have been subjected to police violence, while no official has been held responsible. The BBC's Rayhan Demytrie travelled to Amaglobeli's home town of Batumi, in western Georgia and sent this report

Georgia's hunger-striking journalist

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Georgia's hunger-striking journalist

Rayhan Demytrie

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