4 TV companies: TV Pirveli, Formula, Mtavari Arkhi and Kavkasia TV stop broadcasting for 24 hours.
According to the decision of the management, during the next 24 hours, the journalists and cameramen of the mentioned TV companies will not make any shoots.
The point is that this is how the media protest against the death of Lekso Lashkarava, the cameraman of TV Pirveli, who was beaten by violent groups on July 5.
According to media representatives, on July 5, the government failed to protect the safety of journalists and cameramen, failed to create safe working conditions for them, so the country's Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili and Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomeluri should resign and punish all perpetrators.
“The government will see the strength of the media”, - journalist Inga Grigolia declared yesterday.