TBILISI, DFWatch – Three national TV channels in Georgia selectively left out parts of a new survey.
The survey was done by the International Republican Institute, which is affiliated with the Republican party in the United States and is in Georgia to develop democracy.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Groups gathered Thursday to mark World Press Freedom Day with a day-long discussion about how well suited the media environment is to fulfill its public role ahead of the parliamentary election in October.
The roundtable discussion was held at Courtyard
TBILISI, DFWatch – For three days, journalists from Kutaisi in the west of Georgia have been complaining about harassment by the President and Interior Minister’s guards.
On May 2, president Mikheil Saakashvili was giving a speech at the city’s theatre.
Nodar Jojua,
TBILISI, DFWatch – A spokesperson for the prison minister in Georgia Friday lied about her whereabouts to divert a crowd of protesters who were angry over a dead prisoner.
A spokeswoman for prison minister Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, claimed that she was not in Tbilisi,
TBLISI, DFWatch – An independent medical expert says the injuries seen on photos of a prisoner’s dead body were caused by a disease which was not properly treated.
Zurab Delianidze died at Gldani prison hospital in Tbilisi. Media learned about his death from family
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Interior Ministry says one person has been arrested for smuggling explosive material to Zugdidi, after crossing the administrative border line with Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia.
“Explosive material was seized by the Sappers Division
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgiy Ramazashvili, a Moscow-based archival researcher, in July 2011 discovered that there was new construction work on a historic cemetery in Moscow where many Georgian royals, nobles and historic persons are buried. After Georgian and Russian media
TBILISI, DFWatch – ‘I am a reporter, not a spy’; ‘we want free media’ – these were some of the slogans seen during a demonstration in Tbilisi Thursday to mark World Press Freedom Day.
The first rally started at 12:00 noon. Protesters symbolically tied their eyes,
TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian billionaire’s opposition movement has launched its own TV channel.
Channel 9 started broadcasting April 30 and has been given a license by the National Communication Commission to broadcast via satellite. The broadcasting permit is for
TBILISI, DFWatch – People gathered in front of parliament Thursday to protest against mistreatment of prisoners, spurred by the news of another death of a prisoner who bore signs of having been beaten.
Police reported that the prisoner died of a heart attack, but