周一，一家法院判处格鲁吉亚知名电视主播因在网络上发表针对执政党政治人物的批评言论，判处30天监禁，此举是一系列针对“仇恨言论”的起诉的最新进展，这些起诉引发了对新闻自由的担忧。
A court in Georgia sentenced a well-known TV anchor to 30 days in jail on Monday after he posted comments online critical of ruling party politicians, part of a string of prosecutions of "hate speech" that have triggered concern about press freedom.
据Interpress新闻社报道，该判决标志着对记者瓦霍·萨纳亚（Vakho Sanaia）的第二次羁押和第三次处罚，他是一家反对派电视台Formula的记者。
The ruling, reported by the Interpress news agency, marks the second detention and third penalty for Vakho Sanaia, a journalist with the opposition channel Formula.
自2012年执政以来，执政党格鲁吉亚梦想党（Georgian Dream）在2024年10月赢得议会选举后，一直对反对派人物和团体进行打压。
In power since 2012, the governing Georgian Dream party has clamped down on opposition figures and groups since winning re-election in an October 2024 parliamentary vote.
随后政府采取的冻结欧盟 accession（加入）进程的举措，引发格鲁吉亚人因被视为国家走向专制而愤怒而展开大规模的街头示威。
A subsequent move by the government to freeze its accession process for the European Union triggered massive street demonstrations in the South Caucasus country by Georgians angered by what they cast as the country's authoritarian turn.
下周，格鲁吉亚梦想党提交的诉讼案将在宪法法院审理，该案寻求直接禁止该国最大的反对派政党。
The Constitutional Court will hear a lawsuit next week filed by Georgian Dream that seeks to ban the country's largest opposition parties outright.
周一的法院裁决以及此前针对萨纳亚的案件，源于他网上发表的批评格鲁吉亚议长及另一名执政党政治人物的言论。
Monday's court decision and the previous cases against Sanaia stem from online posts he wrote criticising Georgia's parliamentary speaker and another ruling party politician.
这些言论被格鲁吉亚媒体引用，其中包含对政治人物的粗俗攻击，为此萨纳亚在7月曾服刑14天。
The comments, cited by Georgian media, contain vulgarities directed at the politicians, for which Sanaia served a 14-day jail sentence in July.
Interpress在周一判决后引用萨纳亚的话说：“我的主要目的是为了让社会沉默。”他补充道：“无论需要多长时间，我们都将推翻这个政权。”
"The main goal of my arrest is to silence society," he was cited as saying by Interpress after the ruling on Monday. "We will overthrow this regime, no matter how long it takes."
今年夏天，政府在内政部设立了一个机构，负责监控公众言论，这些言论“侵犯/侮辱人类尊严并包含仇恨言论”。
This summer the government established a body within the interior ministry to monitor public statements that "violate/insult human dignity and contain hate speech".
自该机构成立以来，数十人因在集会上举牌或在网络上发表批评政治人物和其他公众人物的言论而被逮捕或处罚，其中包括亿万富翁前总理比兹纳·伊万什维利（Bidzina Ivanishvili），他被普遍视为格鲁吉亚的实际统治者。
Dozens of people have been arrested and fined since then for holding placards at rallies or writing comments online that criticise politicians and other public figures, including Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire former prime minister widely viewed as Georgia's de facto ruler.
人权观察组织和其他权利团体谴责了这些起诉，称其威胁了言论自由权。
Human Rights Watch and other rights groups have condemned the prosecutions, saying they threaten the right to freedom of expression.