{"id":149670,"date":"2011-12-19T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=149670"},"modified":"2011-12-19T17:59:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:59:56","slug":"president-saakashvili-dont-kill-the-press-georgia-newspapers-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/19\/president-saakashvili-dont-kill-the-press-georgia-newspapers-protest.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;President Saakashvili, Don&#8217;t Kill the Press!&#8217; Georgia Newspapers Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;President Saakashvili, Don&#8217;t Kill the Press!&#8221; are the words printed, in Georgian and in English, on the front page of almost all Georgian newspapers today.<\/p>\n<p>The papers Kviris Palitra, Resonance, Asaval Dasavali, Versya (&#8220;version&#8221;), Akhali Taoba and Khronika (&#8220;chronicle&#8221;) choose this form of protest against the demolition of newsstands in Tbilisi, asking Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to suspend this process, reports Newcaucasus.com.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kviris Palitra, only a few of the 140\u2013150 kiosks in Tbilisi remain. The rest are expected to be dismantled before the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the local press association Lasha Tugushi and several other experts regard the campaign to dismantle newsstands as pressure on the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is unacceptable! It&#8217;s clear that the motive for this is the government&#8217;s political crisis. There has never been such a reactionary attack on independent media, and it is directly linked to the upcoming elections,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, within the framework of the &#8220;1,000 Kiosks&#8221; program, Tbilisi City Hall announced an auction which is concerning mainly those lands on which there are newsstands.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspapers in Georgia choose this form of protest against the demolition of newsstands in Tbilisi, asking Georgian President&#8230;.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30797,10256,30650,21516,10957,11397,14116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}