NEWS
and Declarations
Pressure
on Chechen Media
(GT/IAGJ)On
October 20, Visami Tutuyev, a director of KavkazCenter Chechen news agency, a
refugee from Chechnya, applied Independent Association of Georgian Journalists
for support. Mr. Tutoyev said he was arrested by Security Ministry officers of
Counter-terrorist Centre on October 9, near Tbilisi City Municipality building.
The journalist claimed he had been kept in custody in the Counter-terrorist
Centre office for eight hours. He was not allowed to contact his lawyer and his
cell phone was confiscated.
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Article
data: 20 October 2004
The
declaration of Independent Association of Georgian Journalists
(IAGJ) concerning the arrest of Georgian journalists in Beslan (North Caucasus)
data:
September 7.2004
IPI's
letter to President of Georgia
Article
data: August.9.2004
IAGJ urges Georgian
government to respect
independent media
Government threatens one more
oppositional TV station
with the shutdown
Article
data: August.5.2004
Protest
letter to the President
Your Excellency,
The
International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives
and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is deeplyconcerned about the recent
police raid on the independent weekly newspaper,
The Georgian Times.
Article
data: August.4.2004