French photographer Hicham El Bouhmid, who was covering ongoing protest actions in the country, was denied entry to Georgia. On August 3, 2025, he wrote on Instagram that after six hours of waiting and questioning at the Armenia–Georgia border, he was refused entry, with the official reason cited as “other cases provided for by Georgian legislation.”

Based on publicly available information from 2024–2025, the “Media, Information, and Social Research Center” recorded nine cases of foreign journalists and photographers being denied entry to Georgia, and one case of being denied exit from the country. In none of these cases did law enforcement specify the exact motive for the refusal of entry.