The court refused to consider Amaglobeli's lawsuit against Kobakhidze.

Tbilisi City Court Judge David Akobidze dismissed Mzia Amaglobeli's lawsuit, which demanded Irakli Kobakhidze refute false accusations against her.

As reported by Kavkazsky Knot, on November 18, A two-year sentence for Mzia Amaglobeli, founder of the Batumelebi and Netgazeti publications, was upheld. Both the defense and the prosecution appealed the sentence. Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, announced that he was nominating Amaglobeli for the Nobel Peace Prize.

According to the judge, Irakli Kobakhidze's statement regarding Mzia Amaglobeli was made "as part of a political debate," and he cannot be held responsible for it, Batumelebi reports today.

Mzia Amaglobeli was not present at the hearing. His interests in court were represented by lawyer Ana Rekhviashvili. As for the other side, neither Irakli Kobakhidze nor his representative appeared at the court hearing.

Lawyer Ana Rekhviashvili called Judge David Akobidze's decision "a dangerous precedent for Georgian justice."

"The court chose a shortcut to reviewing and terminating the dispute, so the defendant Irakli Kobakhidze was not even present at the court hearing. The court terminated the proceedings and declared that the statement Irakli Kobakhidze made during his conversation with journalists was a statement disseminated within the framework of a political discussion, and he cannot be held responsible for such a statement," Ana Rekhviashvili stated.

"In its content, this approach by the court to such a claim is a dangerous precedent for Georgian justice. The court effectively opened the way for political officials and told them that they can make any statements, spread any lie as fact, and political officials will not be held responsible for disseminating such "Lies," the lawyer noted after the hearing in the Tbilisi City Court.

On May 7, 2025, Mzia Amaglobeli filed a lawsuit against Irakli Kobakhidze with the Civil Division of the Tbilisi City Court. The lawsuit sought to have statements Kobakhidze made about Amaglobeli at various times and published in the media declared defamatory. Amaglobeli demanded a retraction of two of Kobakhidze's statements, in both cases claiming that Amaglobeli's actions—a slap in the face of Batumi Police Chief Irakli Dgebuadze in response to an insult—were ordered by "foreign forces" and aimed at tarnishing the police's image. Mzia Amaglobeli demanded that Kobakhidze refute these statements on the same television networks, Tabula reported. The Caucasian Knot also reported that at the end of October, the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly published a resolution demanding the release of imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli. A week earlier, Mzia Amaglobeli received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union's highest award for human rights work.