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Alerts - Georgia

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Georgia

IPI demands release of Serbian journalist detained in South Ossetia

Viktor Lazic was detained on 3 September on the border between Georgia and South Ossetia and is now being held in solitary confinement.

Georgia

Three photographers arrested, accused of espionage

IPI is concerned about the ambiguous circumstances surrounding the arrest of Irakli Gedenidze, Giorgi Abdaladze and Zurab Kurtsikidze, and calls on the government to lay out its evidence in a clear manner or release the photographers.

Georgia

At least a dozen journalists attacked by police dispersing protesters

Journalists were verbally and physically attacked in the ensuing melee, cameras and video cameras were seized or destroyed and some reporters were arrested without justification.

Georgia

Reporter accuses Georgian authorities of trying to poison him during NATO meetings in Brussels

Giorgy Popkhadze said that Georgian journalists and human rights activists had recently visited him, bringing materials on repression and killings in Georgia.

Georgia

Journalist receives death threats from authorities

Journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze recently returned from South Ossetia where he was producing a documentary on the 2008 Russian-Georgian conflict.

Georgia

Government department threatens to blackmail journalist

When journalist Tedo Jorbenadze refused to divulge information about "Batumelebi" newspaper, law enforcers threatened to blackmail him.

Georgia / Russia

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.

Georgia

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.

Georgia

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.

Georgia

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.

Georgia

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.

Georgia

Journalist attacked by police at protest rally

The leader of a journalists' union was beaten at a protest rally on 15 June 2009.

Georgia / Russia

Polish television crew freed in South Ossetia

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 9 September 2008 CPJ press release:

Georgia / Russia

Polish television crew detained in South Ossetia

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is an 8 September 2008 CPJ press release:

Georgia

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 2008. The death of a fourth journalist, a Georgian, and his driver, reportedly in the bombing of Gori on 12 August, has not been confirmed.

Georgia / Russia

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 Georgia-Russia conflict, into the city and, by force, took reporting equipment away from several journalists.

Georgia / Russia

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:

Georgia / Russia

Turkish journalists injured in attack, assaulted and detained by Russian soldiers

(IPI/IFEX) - The following is an IPI press release:

Georgia / Russia

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 millions of connection requests.

Georgia / Russia

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 / Russia

Dutch cameraman killed, reporter wounded during bombing of Gori

(CPJ/IFEX)- The following is a CPJ press release:

Georgia / Russia

Five Russian, two Turkish journalists also injured in South Ossetia

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is an 11 August 2008 CPJ press release:

Georgia / Russia

Two journalists killed, two missing, more injured while covering conflict in Ossetia

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is an IFJ media release:

Georgia

Acting president says suspended TV station can resume broadcasting

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders hailed the 3 December 2007 statement by acting president Nino Burjanadze that she plans to ask the judicial authorities to lift a month-old broadcast ban on the independent television channel Imedi TV. "The danger that was the cause of Imedi TV's closure no longer exists," she said.

Georgia

Four television journalists beaten by police; CPJ urges government to lift news restrictions, allow Imedi and Kavkaziya TV stations to reopen

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is an 8 November 2007 CPJ press release:

Georgia

Government bans non-state news broadcasts; police beat journalists, ombudsman; television stations raided, shut

(HRW/IFEX) - The following is a Human Rights Watch press release:

Georgia

Jailed TV station co-founder Chalva Ramishvili does not get presidential pardon, unlike colleague

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has learned that Chalva Ramishvili, one of the co-founders of the independent TV station 202, has not received a presidential pardon, unlike his partner, 202 managing editor David Kokhreidze. The two journalists were convicted on flimsy evidence in March 2006 of extorting money from a parliamentarian. Ramishvili was sentenced to four years in prison. Kokhreidze got three years.

Georgia

Three filmmakers released from prison in breakaway region

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:

Georgia

Filmmakers sentenced to prison for espionage

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 9 March 2006 CPJ press release:

Georgia

Police raid independent newspaper

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 20 July 2004 CPJ press release:

Georgia

Journalists beaten at opposition rally

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:

Georgia

RSF calls for end to relentless harassment of media in autonomous republic of Ajaria

(RSF/IFEX) - On 5 March 2004, television journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze was brutally beaten in the latest of a dozen incidents of harassment of the media in the autonomous republic of Ajaria that have occurred to date in 2004. His assailants were identified by a witness as belonging to the Ajarian special forces.

Georgia

Journalist attacked

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:

Georgia

WAN condemns attacks on the media

(WAN/IFEX) - In a 24 February 2004 letter to President Mikheil Saakashvili, WAN and the World Editors Forum (WEF) condemned without reserve a series of attacks on the media since the November "Rose Revolution".

Georgia

Harsh defamation laws must be amended, says ARTICLE 19

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release:

Georgia

IPI concerned about pressure faced by mass media

(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a 9 February 2004 IPI letter to President Mikheil Saakashvili:

Georgia

Ban on broadcasters lifted, ARTICLE 19 calls for inquiry into attacks on journalists and activists

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is a joint 26 January 2004 ARTICLE 19 and PRESS NOW letter to the president of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Aslan Abashidze:

Georgia

Media facing harassment in Adjara Autonomous Republic

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has expressed concern about harassment of the media in the Adjara Autonomous Republic. Several journalists were recently physically attacked or prevented from working in the region, where a state of emergency was declared on 7 January 2004.

Georgia

Rocket attack on television station Rustavi 2

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced concern about a rocket attack on 29 December 2003 that shook the Tbilisi headquarters of the television station Rustavi 2 and damaged the building's façade but caused no injuries, although 15 journalists were inside at the time.

Georgia

Explosion rocks state television headquarters

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced concern about a blast that shook the headquarters of the state television company in Tbilisi on the evening of 3 December 2003. The explosion caused damage but no injuries and did not interrupt broadcasts.

Georgia

Election Commission cancels accreditation of main independent television station

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has expressed concern over the national Election Commission's decision to cancel the accreditation of the country's only truly independent television station, Rustavi 2, and stressed that Georgians needed impartial information during a time of serious political disturbances.

Georgia

Suspect convicted in television journalist's murder

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:

Georgia

Publisher receives death threat

(JuHI/IFEX) - According to the Independent Association of Georgian Journalists (IAGJ), based in Tbilisi, Malkhaz Gulashvili, the president of the Georgian Times Media Holding company, was the recent target of a death threat.

Georgia

Popular radio station attacked

Georgia

Supreme Court threatens independent television station for exposing corruption

Georgia

Journalist arrested and detained, others assaulted

Georgia

Police ransack TV station, threaten to kill journalist and her family

Georgia

CPJ releases statement marking anniversary of television journalist's murder

Georgia

IFJ calls for urgent probe into break-in at journalists' association offices

Georgia

Offices of Tbilisi Press Club and press freedom group ransacked by thugs

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