A spokeswoman for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says four Georgian news photographers arrested on July 7 were part of a "spying network."
The spokeswoman added that the photographers' arrests had "nothing to do with their journalism."
The detained photojournalists are accused of spying for a foreign country, although Georgian officials have yet to name the country involved.
The detainees are Zurab Kurtsikidze, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency; freelancer Giorgi Abdaladze; and Saakashvili's personal photographer, Irakli Gedenidze, together with his wife Natia Gedenidze, also a photographer.
AP photographer Shakh Aivazov was also briefly detained and released without charges.
Lawyers for Kurtsikidze and Abdaladze say their clients deny wrongdoing.
compiled from agency reports
The spokeswoman added that the photographers' arrests had "nothing to do with their journalism."
The detained photojournalists are accused of spying for a foreign country, although Georgian officials have yet to name the country involved.
The detainees are Zurab Kurtsikidze, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency; freelancer Giorgi Abdaladze; and Saakashvili's personal photographer, Irakli Gedenidze, together with his wife Natia Gedenidze, also a photographer.
AP photographer Shakh Aivazov was also briefly detained and released without charges.
Lawyers for Kurtsikidze and Abdaladze say their clients deny wrongdoing.
compiled from agency reports