I’m thinking of abandoning this walk of life for I was born in Georgia. I don’t want to live in strange country from hand to mouth. But from day to day journalists’ rights become ephemeral. Soon my status equate with national and sexual minorities. For all editors-in-chief of television and publishing companies are slaves of our Micho Saakashvili. Since his coming to power none of telecast about corruption of officials or police has been put on the air. At the same time slightest discontent or disagreement with political course of our brilliant president can entail discharge from office.
And I’m creative man. I need freedom of action and of expressing of my opinion. I can’t work in conditions of total dictatorship and terror. There is hardly any of journalists working in opposition Georgian editions that didn’t suffer in police torture chambers.
At the same time I don’t understand why Human Rights Watch does nothing about this situation. From time to time their officials establish facts of restraint of freedom of mass media or general buying up of independent TV companies by governmental officials. But they don’t even denounce roundly such policy of Saakashvili.
So we have no choice but calling “please pay attention at us! Anyone at all!”