{"podcast":{"title":"The Caucasus Digest","slug":"the-caucasus-digest-5573317","podcast_index_feed_id":5573317,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/422300/rss","website_url":"https://oc-media.org","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/f/c/0/8fc0e7038681ac93d959afa2a1bf1c87/The_Caucasus_Digest_2.png","author":"OC Media","episode_count":107,"summary":"Your weekly view into the Caucasus region with the OC Media team. Every week, we break down some of the biggest topics in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the Russian North Caucasus.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T06:17:03.069059+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caucasus-digest-5573317"},"episode":{"title":"Mzia Amaghlobeli's arrest","slug":"mzia-amaghlobeli-s-arrest","published_at":"2025-01-27T15:20:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caucasus-digest-5573317/mzia-amaghlobeli-s-arrest","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caucasus-digest-5573317","url":"https://oc-media.org/podcasts/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/f59a01ea-d423-4704-9c1a-30fa207da38f/CD_103fr_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=3509927","summary":"Mzia Amaghlobeli, the director of Georgian news sites Batumelebi and Netgazeti, has been arrested on charges of assaulting a police officer after slapping Batumi's police chief during a heated exchange. Journalists, legal experts, and media watchdogs have criticised the arrest, saying that the charges, under which she could face four to seven years in prison, are wildly disproportionate to what she had done. This week, we spoke with Batumelebi's Irma Dimitradze about the circumstances surrounding the arrest, to journalist Tamar Rukhadze, about the current media environment in Georgia, and to OC Media's Mariam Nikuradze about the legal debate around her prosecution. Read more: Batumelebi and Netgazeti founder Amaghlobeli begins hunger strike while in pretrial detention Batumelebi employee accuses police of hacking and wiping phone following arrest Support independent journalism in the Caucasus and become an OC Media Member: Join today . …or donate to the collective Georgian media security fund .","meta_description":"Mzia Amaghlobeli, the director of Georgian news sites Batumelebi and Netgazeti, has been arrested on charges of assaulting a police officer after slapping…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2369,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-caucasus-digest-5573317/episodes/mzia-amaghlobeli-s-arrest/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caucasus-digest-5573317/mzia-amaghlobeli-s-arrest.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}