Nana Kakabadze: “Journalists, Why Do Not You Ask So Many Questions to Saakashvili At Press-Conference?”

A leader of the non-governmental organization “Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights” Nana Kakabadze asked ten questions to Georgian journalists.

The human rights defender inquired whether journalists are allowed to ask several questions during the press-conferences with Mikheil Saakashvili, Giga Bokeria, Vano Merabishvili, Zurab Adeishvili and other high-ranking governmental officials and why they are not as active during their press-conferences as they were at Bidzina Ivanishvili’s press-conference.

“I wonder – do you know that first obligation of the journalist is impartial reporting? How many of 230 journalists could meet and ask sharp questions to any of real governors of our country – Mikheil Saakashvili, Giga Bokeria, Vano Merabishvili or Zurab Adeishvili? Do you want to meet and ask questions those governmental officials at the press-conference? When you attend the press-conference with the spokesperson of the president or with any minister, do you have chance to ask additional questions to them or can you continue conversations after you ask questions?” Nana Kakabadze asked in her appeal to journalists.

Kakabadze also wondered: did they ever feel protest (or loudly protest) when being searched entering the building of any governmental agency? And why did not they so actively protest the dispersal of the TV-Company Imedi in 2007 as they were struggling for a microphone during the press-conference with Bidzina Ivanishvili?

“Have you never wished to ask Mikheil Saakashvili if he carries out Russian policy in Georgia or not? Had he yielded 20% of the Georgian territory to Russia willfully or not? Why did he assign the most profitable fields of the Georgian economy to the enemy of our country? Have you ever asked him who was Georgian “Rodionov” of the dispersals on November 7, 2007 and May 26 of 2011 and when the perpetrators will be punished for the murder of Sandro Girgvliani, Buta Robakidze, Zurab Vazagashvili, Giorgi Gamtsemlidze and other boys, who were ruthlessly killed in the street? Have you ever asked why the murderers of Girgvliani, Zhvania and others occupy high positions in the government and are close friends of the president? Or why are the commander-in-chief and generals of the lost war still in the authority?” Nana Kakabadze asked.

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