HINDERING THE WORK OF MAESTRO JOURNALIST TAMTA GAZISHVILI IN GORI
Date: 2012-09-03
Period: 2012 Parliamentary elections - Pre-election period
District: Gori , Gori
Incident Category: Other
2012-08-08 On August 8, 2012, camera crew of Maestro TV was preparing a report about people displaced following the Russia-Georgia war in Khurvaleti Settlement in Gori. Some locals were aggressive towards journalist Tamta Gazashvili and did not allow her to record on camera. Some of them told her that only the foremen had the “right” to talk to them. One of the foremen told the journalist that they were the ones controlling the situation in the settlement. Eventually, a group of citizens started throwing rocks at the journalist and forced her to leave the territory .


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