Formula TV Anchor Vakho Sanaia Sent to 14-Day Detention over Facebook Posts on GD MPs

Vakho Sanaia, a journalist and anchor at opposition-leaning Formula TV, was sent to 14 days of administrative detention over a Facebook post concerning Georgian Dream Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and MP Vladimer Bozhadze.

While several people had previously been detained over social media statements that courts found “insulting” toward public officials, Sanaia is the first …