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Georgia’s jailed journalist, and Europe’s dilemma: “Hope is not a plan”
STRASBOURG. Irma Dimitradze came to the European Parliament to speak for someone who could not. Dimitradze, a Georgian journalist from Batumelebi, represented her imprisoned colleague Mzia Amaglobeli at the Sakharov Prize ceremony. The prize is designed to spotlight freedom of thought. In Georgia’s current climate, that spotlight functions as both protection and provocation. Amaglobeli’s detention has become part of a wider argument about whether Georgia is moving closer to E
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