Georgia

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release, followed by the Georgian Supreme Court statement printed in the Tbilisi-based state-owned daily newspaper “Sakartvelos Respublika” (“The Republic Of Georgia”): GEORGIA: Supreme Court threatens independent TV station for exposing corruption New York, March 21, 2003-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned that the Georgian Supreme […]

(JuHI/IFEX) – According to information sent by JuHI’s partner in Georgia, the Independent Association of Georgian Journalists (IAGJ), on 7 December 2002, at 6:00 a.m. (local time), officers from the Georgian Special Security Services and Ministry of Internal Affairs detained about 100 Chechens living in the country. The detainees include a journalist from the independent […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 2 October 2002, RSF called for the punishment of police officers who issued deaths threats against a journalist and her family and went on a rampage at a television station in the western Georgian town of Zugdidi on 27 September, hours after the station broadcast criticism of the local police force. About […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: GEORGIA: CPJ releases statement marking anniversary of television journalist’s murder New York, July 25, 2002-To mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of Georgy Sanaya, a popular anchor for the Tbilisi-based independent television station Rustavi-2, Committee to Protect Journalists executive director Ann Cooper issued the following […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Calls for Urgent Probe Over Mystery Robbery of Georgian Association of Journalists The International Federation of Journalists, the world’s largest journalists’ group, today urged President Eduard Shevardnadze to launch an investigation into a mysterious robbery at the offices of the IFJ affiliated Independent Association of […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 12 July 2002, RSF protested the ransacking of the Tbilisi Press Club and the offices of the Liberty Institute, a human rights and press freedom non-governmental organisation, by more than half a dozen men with iron bars. The incidents took place on the afternoon of 10 July. Liberty Institute Director Levan Ramishvili […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 31 October 2001 CPJ press release: GEORGIA: CPJ condemns government raid on independent TV station New York, October 31, 2001-The Committee to Protect Journalists today denounced a government raid on the independent Georgian television station Rustavi-2. On October 30, some 30 agents from Georgia’s National Security Ministry raided Rustavi-2’s […]

(IPI/IFEX) – In a 31 October 2001 letter to Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, IPI expressed profound concern about the recent harassment and intimidation of the television station Rustavi-2. According to the information before IPI, on 31 October, Rustavi-2, an independent television station based in Tibilisi, was besieged by a large contingent from the ministry of […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 26 September 2001 CPJ press release: JAPANESE JOURNALIST MISSING IN CAUCASUS New York, September 26, 2001- Japanese free-lance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka has now been missing since late July, when he reportedly left Georgia for Chechnya to interview Chechen rebels. Tsuneoka, 32, last communicated with his family via e-mail at […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – In a 3 August 2001 letter to Internal Affairs Minister Kakha Targamadze, the IFJ expressed deep concern about the assassination of investigative journalist George Sanaia in his apartment on 27 July. In addition, the IFJ is concerned about the 1 July decision not to broadcast the programme “60 Minutes”, particularly as the programme […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 27 July 2001 press release: GEORGIAN JOURNALIST FOUND DEAD New York, July 27, 2001 — A popular 26-year old Georgian journalist was found dead in his Tbilisi apartment yesterday, according to local and international reports. Georgy Sanaya was shot once in the head at close range with a 9mm […]

(IPI/IFEX) – In a 27 July 2001 letter to Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, IPI strongly condemned the murder of Georgi Sanaia, a news presenter at the independent Rustavi-2 national television station and one of Georgia’s most popular television journalists. Sanaia, 25, who also hosted a late-night political discussion programme, was found dead in his flat […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is ARTICLE 19’s Memorandum on the Georgian Draft Changes to the Law on Communications and the Post relating to Licensing: MEMORANDUM ON THE DRAFT CHANGES TO THE LAW ON COMMUNICATIONS AND THE POST RELATING TO LICENCING IN THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA By ARTICLE 19 The Global Campaign Against Censorship April […]

(IPI/IFEX) – In a 3 April 2001 letter to Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, IPI expressed its alarm at the recent attacks on the Tbilisi newspaper “Meridiani” and its staff. According to IPI’s sources, when staff at the weekly “Meridiani” returned to work on 1 April they discovered their offices had been broken into during the […]

(IPI/IFEX) – In a 5 March 2001 letter to President Eduard Shevardnadze, IPI strongly condemned the assault on a Georgian journalist. According to IPI’s sources, Tamaz Tsertsvadze, editor of the Tbilisi weekly newspaper “Meridiani”, was attacked near his home by a group of unknown individuals late in the evening on 24 February. Tsertsvadze was severely […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 24 October 2000 letter to President Eduard Shevardnadze, CPJ stated that it is gravely disturbed by the death of Italian radio journalist Antonio Russo, whose body was found on 16 October outside the capital, Tbilisi. Because of the highly suspicious circumstances surrounding his death, Russo’s colleagues in Tbilisi fear the journalist […]