On 5 July 2021, hundreds of anti-LGBTQI+ protesters attacked more than 50 journalists covering a pride march in Tbilisi. Twenty-five of those attackers were handed prison sentences on 4 April 2022; another was fined.
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In 2021, EFJ recorded the killings of Hazım Özsu in Turkey, Giorgos Karaivaz in Greece, Maharram Ibrahimov and Siraj Abishov in Azerbaijan, Peter R. de Vries in The Netherlands, and Aleksandre Lashkarava in Georgia.