Georgian Press Digest: excerpts
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Georgian Press Digest: excerpts
ANNOTATED DAILY HEADLINES OF THE GEORGIAN PRESS
Compiled by the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and
Development (CIPDD)
Text: Tamara Shamil
English version: Guram Dumbadze
Editor: Emil Adelkhanov-Steinberg
September 17, 1998
1. The Special Police Force Broke Up a Protest Rally of the Meskhetian
Turks in Front of the State Office
About 80 Meskhetian Turks launched a protest rally in front of the
State Office yesterday, demanding a meeting with the president and a
revision of the law on rehabilitation which does not take into account
their interests. The rally was broken up by the special police force
and the Meskhetian Turks were conveyed to a special technical school
so that they are now under "protection" of the police.
"Resonance" No. 254, September 17 - "Night Reporting" project financed
by the Soros and Eurasia foundations.
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(From the moderator: The number of protesters mentioned in this
publication is twice bigger that reported in the previuos CIPDD
coverage - see
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/archive/09171998-09:16:42-11300.html. Is
somebody aware of any more details about the event? - Boris)
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2. Abashidze Wants to Join Samtskhe-Djavakheti and Adjaria
Niko Lekishvili, deputy chairman of the ruling party, met Aslan
Abashidze, the Adjarian leader, in Batumi on September 14. He said
afterwards that the problem of the Samtskhe-Djavakheti region
(populated by the Armenian majority demanding for autonomy) may be
solved by joining this region to Adjaria.
"Resonance" No. 254, September 17
3. How the Independent Press Is Stifled in Georgia
Georgian journalists have held a solidarity meeting after Lasha
Nadareishvili, the editor of the independent newspaper
"Asaval-Dasavali" was severely beaten some days ago. Although the
freedom of press was not openly violated in Georgia, the participants
stressed, the authorities practised financial backing of some
newspapers and "economic stifling" of the others. It seems that the
newspapers are divided into "welcome" and "not welcome" ones.
"Droni" No. 106, September 17-19
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5. The First Page of the Newspaper Reports
Video- and audio-materials of the newspaper about how Tamaz
Nadareishvili, the chairman of the Tbilisi-based Supreme Council of
Abkhazia, his son and bodyguards beat two policemen when these last
were on duty will be submitted to the president.
"Alia" No. 159, September 17-18
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