PHYSICAL ATTACK ON JOURNALISTS
Date: 2012-03-10
Period: 2012 Parliamentary elections - Pre-election period
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack
2012-03-10 Video reporters Tamar Kajilashvili and Tamar Khidasheli of the Shida Kartli Information Center were seeking to report the case of schoolteacher being laid off, for political reasons. The reporters entered the school and started video interviews with pupils and teachers, asking them whether or not they were ordered to withdraw an appeal that asked the school to rehire the teacher in question. The school’s guard (mandaturi) tried to expel the reporter from the building.


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