IFJ endorses joint Russian and Georgian demand to end media restrictions
Media groups are calling for an end to war propaganda and concrete actions to promote dialogue and confidence between Russian and Georgian journalists.
Journalist sentenced to prison for libeling de facto president of Abkhazia
WAN-IFRA calls on the de facto president to ensure that the conviction of journalist Anton Kriveniuk is overturned and that libel is decriminalised.
Russian journalist faces jail term on forgery charges
According to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, its Tbilisi bureau chief is facing up to three years in prison if convicted on a forgery charge.
Journalist accused of insult and slander
A criminal case was opened by prosecutors against journalist Anton Krivinyuk, who published an article criticising authorities and the president.
Opposition journalist released from prison after serving full four-year term for alleged “extortion”
The exact circumstances that led to journalist Shalva Ramishvili’s arrest remain unclear, said IPI.
Journalist attacked by police at protest rally
The leader of a journalists’ union was beaten at a protest rally on 15 June 2009.
Attacks on the Press in 2008: Georgia
Attacks on the Press in 2008: Georgia
World Report 2009: Georgia
World Report 2009: Georgia
Polish television crew freed in South Ossetia
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 9 September 2008 CPJ press release: Polish television crew freed in South Ossetia New York, September 9, 2008 – The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes today’s release of Telewizja Polska (TVP) crew members who were detained ( http://cpj.org/news/2008/europe/SouthOssetia08sep08na.html ) outside the Georgian village of Karaleti by South Ossetian militia […]
Polish television crew detained in South Ossetia
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 8 September 2008 CPJ press release: Polish television crew detained in South Ossetia New York, September 8, 2008 – South Ossetian and Russian authorities should immediately release three members of a Polish television crew detained today near the village of Karaleti in the buffer zone between South Ossetia and […]
Journalist wounded by sniper; Israeli journalist shot at by Russian soldiers; two radio stations ransacked
(RSF/IFEX) – Three journalists – Giga Chikhladze, correspondent of Russian “Newsweek” and head of Alania TV, Alexander Klimchuk, head of the photo agency Caucasus Press Images and correspondent for the news agency Itar-Tass, and Stan Storimans, cameraman for the Dutch TV station RTL-4 – have been killed since fighting began in Georgia on 8 August […]
Azeri television crew, Turkish journalists fired upon by Russian troops in Gori, reporting equipment seized
(IRFS/IFEX) – IRFS condemns the opening of gunfire by Russian soldiers on a television crew from the Azerbaijani station ANS TV and Turkish journalists in Gori on 14 August 2008. According to ANS, on 14 August Russian tanks blocked all entrances to Gori. Russian armed forces did not permit the journalists, who are covering the […]
Lack of transparency, restricted flow of information fuel conflict, hamper long term peace, says ARTICLE 19
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 14 August 2008 ARTICLE 19 press release: Conflict in South Ossetia: Lack of Transparency and the Restricted Flow of Information Fuel the Conflict and Hamper Long Term Peace ARTICLE 19 is very concerned with the obstructions placed on the free flow of information, including through the targeting of […]
Turkish journalists injured in attack, assaulted and detained by Russian soldiers
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI press release: IPI Condemns Detention of Turkish Journalists in North Ossetia Vienna, 14 August 2008 – The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, condemns the detention of Turkish journalists Levent Ozturk, Guray Ervin, Hilmi Hacaloglu and […]
Several Georgian, Russian websites blocked following attack by rival groups, hackers
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF condemns the many violations of online freedom of information that have been perpetrated since the outbreak of fighting in the Georgian province of South Ossetia on 8 August 2008, including the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on many Georgian websites, in which the servers they use are overloaded and crashed by […]
In Gori, Israeli journalist seriously injured, Trialeti radio-TV station ceases broadcasting; reporters denied access to Tbilisi victims
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 August 2008 CPJ press release: GEORGIA: Israeli journalist seriously injured in Gori New York, August 13, 2008 – A veteran reporter with the Tel Aviv-based Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth was severely injured on Tuesday in an attack in the central Georgian city of Gori. It was the same […]