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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. >>>
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 7.2004IPI'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.5.2004Protest 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