Human Rights Center’s Last Periodic Reports on Media Monitoring

In the frame of Media-Monitoring on the Coverage of Parliamentary Elections, Human Rights Center publishes reports from the last two periods - October 22 – November 4 and November 5-November 18.

Media Monitoring of Parliamentary Elections is implemented through financial support from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) within the framework of a four-year project, Increased Trust in Electoral Process (ITEP), financed by USAID (US Agency for International Development).

In accordance to the report, after parliamentary elections of October 1, social advertisements, which presented successful projects of the government and contained signs of hidden advertisement, have not been aired by GPB, Rustavi 2 and Imedi. Those advertisements did not meet definition of social advertisement in the law. The ads did not promote any public welfare or charity purposes that are main criteria of the social ad.

After elections, neither music clips nor advertisements of unidentified status have been aired by aforementioned TV-Channels; those clips advertized projects implemented by the government.

It is notable that number of commercial advertisements has increased on Maestro and TV9 after elections.

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