Ukrainian journalist Gordon claims Georgian gov’t afraid of his interview with Saakashvili

Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon, who says he has been denied entry to Georgia, claims that the Georgian Dream government was afraid of the interview he planned to record with arrested former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in Rustavi Prison No.12. 

 

He states that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry had requested the Georgian Foreign Ministry to allow the journalist record the interview. 

 

“ It is an international scandal. I have never been denied entry to any country earlier,” Gordon says. 

 

The Georgian Foreign Ministry, however, says that they had received no official request from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry so far. 

 

Gordon says that he was not let into Georgia without providing any reasons.