2012-05-22 Concrete,journalists representing Akhali Gazeti, Mega TV, the news agency Pirweli, P.S., Radio Dzveli Kalaki, and Maestro TV said that they were prevented by security guards from covering President Mikheil Saakashvili’s speech in the Kutaisi opera house on May 2.

2012-05-21 Violence against journalists perpetrated by the security service officers of the President of Georgia and other law enforcement authorities occurred on May 2, 2012. Representatives of the regional press were not allowed to cover the President’s visit or to access the meeting venue. Journalists of the Post Scriptum and the Akhali Gazeti newspapers were insulted.