[4][5] According to the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association, due to the long duration of the hunger strike, Amaglobeli's life was in danger already as of 27 January 2025[update].
In 2001, Amaglobeli and her friend and colleague Eter Turadze founded the independent media organization "Batumelebi" in the form of a non-periodical printed newspaper.
With the support of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), Amaglobeli successfully registered a new organization in Tbilisi, and on 8 August 2003, it was officially renamed to LLC "Gazeti Batumelebi".
The footage shows her standing alongside Batumelebi editor Eter Turadze after her young relatives were arrested in front of her, surrounded by around twenty police officers as a verbal altercation takes place; a policeman (possibly Dgebuadze) can be heard threatening and assaulting her.
[12] The prosecution's arguments were based on risks of flight, failure to appear in court, destruction of evidence important to the case, and the potential for repeated offenses.
[3] The Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) argues that there is no justification for pretrial detention in this case, as there are no risks of flight, witness tampering, or obstruction of the investigation by Mzia Amaghlobeli.
[17] On 14 January, Georgian independent online media and opposition TV channels held a preventive strike in protest and ceased broadcasting for three hours.
[20][21][22][23] Transparency International commented on the case, stating: Mzia Amaghlobeli's actions, due to their minor significance, cannot objectively be considered a crime.
It is evident that Mzia Amaghlobeli is not being punished for committing an act of significant danger but for exposing the regime's corruption and involvement in illegal activities over the years.
[25] On 31 January, in an interview with Radio Liberty, Theodoros Roussopoulos, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), stated that the treatment Amaghlobeli received in the detention facility, such as being denied water and access to the restroom, was "torture".
[26] On 4 February, on the 24th day of her hunger strike, a group of politicians, MEPs and members of national parliaments published a joint statement in which they expressed deep concern over Amaghlobeli's health conditions and called for her immediate release along with other political prisoners.
[28] On 7 February, in a statement issued by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas and Commissioner for enlargement Marta Kos called Amaghlobeli "a symbol of courage of all those unjustly detained".
[29] On 10 February, the Kutaisi City Court imposed a fine of 5,000₾ on each of the nine activists, including several well-known individuals, who had held a protest in solidarity with Amaghlobeli in front of a judge's house two weeks earlier.
[30] On February 15, Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi addressed the imprisonment of Amaglobeli in a letter.