RT journalist detained in Georgia

Correspondent Donald Courter is being held; he was stopped in the Tbilisi airport transit zone

Georgian border guards on Tuesday detained RT correspondent Donald Courter at the Tbilisi airport. 

The journalist, who is a dual Russian-US citizen, has been held for about four hours in the transit zone of the airport. Georgian officials claim his documents were not recognized by their system.

The border officials confiscated the journalist’s Russian passport.

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