Czech journalist detained in Georgia has flown to Poland

Czech journalist Ray Baseley was detained by Georgian authorities while attempting to enter the country on Tuesday, without being given an official reason, and has now left Georgia and flown to Warsaw, according to a post on X. Foreign Ministry spokesman Daniel Drake told ČTK that the Czech embassy in Tbilisi was assisting in the matter, and had sent an official request for information about Baseley's whereabouts and the reasons for his detention and denial of entry. Baseley had previously posted on the platform X that neither he nor the border guard knew the reason for the refusal of entry, followed by a comment from his partner Maria Kaplina that she had not heard from him for eight hours.