Daily Archives: July 14, 2012

Police to provide security at campaign events

By | July 14th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian government is to start providing police security during opposition campaign events. The opposition Georgian Dream was Thursday driven out of the village Karaleti by a stone-throwing crowd. 13 people were hospitalised, […]

Media freedom used as weapon in Georgian politics

By | July 14th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Do you know the deductive method? Who was Jack London? What is Watergate? These are some of the important questions an unknown woman recently asked a reporter for info9, again and again, apparently in order to keep him from doing […]

Former Milan player Kakhi Kaladze’s bodyguard arrested

By | July 14th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Police in Georgia say they have arrested five suspects after violent clashes between government supporters and opposition activists Thursday led to thirteen people being hospitalized. Among them is the bodyguard of former AC Milan […]

More violent incidents during Georgian election campaign

By | July 14th, 2012|Categories: NGO news|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – An employee of a public library who was fired in June claims the reason was her political opinion. She openly says she sympathizes with the opposition Georgian Dream party established by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. The library’s director, […]

Maestro journalists defend TV station’s integrity

By | July 14th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Journalists with Maestro demonstrated in front of the old parliament building in Tbilisi Friday. Their demand was that authorities return satellite receivers seized from the TV company a few days ago, so journalists be let to continue their […]