30.01.2019
At the beginning of 2019, high-ranking officials made numerous statements regarding the legislative amendments related to defamation.
According to the President of Georgia, there is a need for legislation that provides more protection for both human dignity and freedom of speech. The Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia stated that the discussion must start not only on the issue of defamation but also with regard to the problem of severe insult and increased use of offensive language.
27.01.2019
Recently media has begun to actively cover the murder of the US
citizens, the Smiths family, who were killed in the Khada Gorge in
July of 2018. The public was shown a testimony given to the
investigation by the defendant as well as the photographs that had
been supposedly provided by law enforcement agencies. In the
nearest future, the jurors will start hearing the case on merits in
the court. Thus, the interest of the Prosecutor’s Office is
obvious- to use media to disseminate the desired information.
Therefore, the media has a great responsibility to ensure that it does not become the instrument for influencing the jurors and the sentiments in society in favour of the Prosecutor’s Office. To this end, it is necessary to do the following:
Therefore, the media has a great responsibility to ensure that it does not become the instrument for influencing the jurors and the sentiments in society in favour of the Prosecutor’s Office. To this end, it is necessary to do the following:
28.09.2018
Statement of Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics about the fact
of attack on Zura Vardiashvili, editor of Liberali. He said that on
the evening of 15th of September he was physically attacked by a
group of 5-6 people. The investigation is ongoing by the 126th
article (violence). Even though several days have passed since the
attack, the investigation has not yet announced results to the
audience. According to the first information, attackers mistook
Zura Vardiashvili with a different person and the attack was not
connected to his professional work.
13.09.2018
The Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics is observing the events
around TV Iberia. Journalists of the TV company say that they are
under pressure from the government to create problems for the
funding company. Audio recordings were published which may contain
criminal statements.
05.09.2018
Georgian media outlets report that tens of employees of the
Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) have received proposals,
according to which the terms of their employment contracts should
be either changed or terminated. We suppose that this proposal is
unjustified and may aim at dismissing tens of employees. Recent
developments around GPB raise a number of questions and even the
latest statement [released by GPB] does not provide answers to
them.
25.05.2018
Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics Council is evaluating the
statement of Georgian Orthodox Church Patriarchate to ask church
members and every citizen “for whom the church is valuable” to
boycott Rustavi 2, as going against media and freedom of
speech.
19.03.2018
Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics requests the Ministry of
Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor’s Office to promptly
investigate the attack on Rustavi 2 journalists that took place on
19th of March.
The reason of the attack was the text of the host of P.S., Giorgi Gabunia, in the show of 18th of March. The video recording of the incident shows not only the interference with journalists’ job, but the use of force, violence, and other criminal signs. It is important for justice system to correctly classify this crime and investigate it quickly and effectively, to have the people using violence against media punished. A journalistic product cannot cause revenge no matter whether it is up to the professional standards or not.
The reason of the attack was the text of the host of P.S., Giorgi Gabunia, in the show of 18th of March. The video recording of the incident shows not only the interference with journalists’ job, but the use of force, violence, and other criminal signs. It is important for justice system to correctly classify this crime and investigate it quickly and effectively, to have the people using violence against media punished. A journalistic product cannot cause revenge no matter whether it is up to the professional standards or not.
19.02.2018
Almost 9 months have passed since the investigation started in the
abduction case of the Azerbaijani journalist and activist Afgan
Mukhtarli from the territory of Georgia but regardless high public
interest to this case information about the progress of
investigation
05.02.2018
Media Advocacy Coalition addresses the Parliament and Broadcasting
Supervisory Board Council to react and openly state their position
about the public statement of the member of the Supervisory Board,
Giorgi Iakobashvili. Giorgi Iakobashvili, as a Supervisory Board
member, defines the priorities and development strategy and
controls the management of the Public Broadcasting. He was chosen
for this position with 84 votes by Georgian Parliament in 2017.
02.02.2018
February 1, 2018
Thomas Kent, President, RFE/RL
Nenad Pejic, Vice President, RFE/RL
Mr. President,
Mr. Vice President,
Thomas Kent, President, RFE/RL
Nenad Pejic, Vice President, RFE/RL
Mr. President,
Mr. Vice President,
