Georgian television channel TV Pirveli has broadcast footage of violence inside a police station. A preview for Nodar Meladze’s program “Saturday Broadcast” states that law enforcement officers used these methods to extract confessions from detainees.
According to the TV channel, the video was filmed by the police officers themselves, who shared the footage of violence and torture in a group chat. The individual who hacked the chat has reportedly been detained.
“This is not a story about a single victim, nor is it a violent crime committed by a single police officer,” the preview states.
TV Pirveli claims that violence within law enforcement agencies has become systemic, alleging that other footage of police violence also exists. Journalists also believe that the leadership could not have been unaware of what was happening.
Shortly after the program’s preview was released, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia issued a special statement. It noted that the distributed footage depicts a crime committed several years ago, and all the officers featured in the video have already been detained.
“The case concerns three police officers from Imereti who were on a temporary assignment in Kobuleti, Adjara, in the summer of 2022, and who committed the crime shown in the footage.
This crime was uncovered in February of this year by the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, which launched an investigation based on the submitted materials, and on February 23, 2026, all three police officers were detained by the prosecutor’s office as defendants.
We are aware that the journalists who distributed this preview also possess this information. However, they deliberately excluded it from the program’s preview, which is aimed at intentionally discrediting the Ministry of Internal Affairs.”
In late May, another scandal involving police violence erupted in Georgia. Regional media outlet qartli.ge published a video from the “Kombinat” settlement in Gori, showing a group of law enforcement officers surrounding and beating a young man lying on the ground.
Later, six employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were detained on charges of abuse of power.
