The Executive Director of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information [IDFI], a watchdog, was verbally and physically assaulted while speaking to journalists. Giorgi Kldiashvili was being interviewed by TV Formula after meeting the Swedish Minister for International Cooperation at the Swedish Embassy.

The video shows the attacker, whose face and car are identifiable passing by pointing at people standing near the Swedish embassy, and swearing at those who “are supporting these people”. Having returned from the nearby shop, he enters into a verbal and then physical altercation with the TV Formula crew and Kldiashvili.